"Locate" command in Python

[Adonis]

BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> How about one of these that works on Windows XP? I know there's no
> files.cache, but I wonder if your script could be combined with another
> function that would generate a list of paths on a Windows XP machine.
> 
> Anyway, thanks for the script.
> 

I wrote it on a Windows XP machine. The files.cache is generated when 
you use the -u option. For example if you saved the script as locate.py 
first at a command prompt: python locate.py -u this will create the 
files.cache, it simply walks through your entire hard drive writing all 
the directories and files it finds along the way. Then doing: python 
locate.py SomeFileOrDirName  will go through the files.cache matching 
whatever term your looking for if present. Although the rootPath 
variable is set to the POSIX style path of "/" Python converts it to a 
proper path. At least thats my assumption as it works fine on my system.

Adonis