Locate with exclude?

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 19 February 2007, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> 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.
>
One of the delights of linux is the multitude of choices to achieve 
anything :-)

Thanks to all

Anne
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