Locate with exclude?

[Jonathan Rawle]

Vivek J. Patankar wrote:

>> 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.

I think locate in traditional Unix worked as you first suggested. The GNU
version was modified to check which files the user would normally be able
to see. Hence the name slocate (secure locate).

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