locate-with-filter

locate-with-filter is an interactive autoloaded compiled Lisp function in `locate.el'.


(locate-with-filter SEARCH-STRING FILTER &optional ARG)

Run the executable program `locate' with a filter.
This function is similar to the function `locate', which see.
The difference is that, when invoked interactively, the present function
prompts for both SEARCH-STRING and FILTER. It passes SEARCH-STRING
to the locate executable program. It produces a `*Locate*' buffer
that lists only those lines in the output of the locate program that
contain a match for the regular expression FILTER; this is often useful
to constrain a big search.

ARG is the interactive prefix arg, which has the same effect as in `locate'.

When called from Lisp, this function is identical with `locate',
except that FILTER is not optional.