Locate with exclude?

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Tony Nelson wrote:
>> Won't work. The database for /locate/ is updated by a cron job that runs
>> as root. So it will index the entire filesystem, except for exclusions
>> set in updatedb.conf.
> 
> Does too work, as only the files that would be visible to the user running
> locate will be reported by locate.  See man updatedb, and try it.

Just RTFM'ed and tested too. I stand corrected. Thanks.

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