Locate with exclude?

Manuel Arostegui Ramirez manuel at todo-linux.com
Sun Feb 18 10:38:05 UTC 2007


El Domingo, 18 de Febrero de 2007 11:32, Anne Wilson escribió:
> On Sunday 18 February 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 10:01 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I generally use locate to find a file, but I have /mnt/FC4root
> > > and /mnt/FC4/home, and dozens of 'finds' are reported that are not
> > > relevant. I'd like to use locate, telling it to ignore/mnt/FC4*, but
> > > nothing in the man pages tells me that this is possible.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a solution to searching while excluding large areas
> > > like this?
> >
> > Check /etc/updatedb.conf
> >
> > You probably will want to customize on of the PRUNE* variables.
>
> Thanks to you and Manuel for replying.  After doing this I presume that
> there is some service that I need to re-start, in order to cause the config
> file to be read?
>

Just run updatedb manually
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