Scripting question ...

[Bryan O'Neal]

I am not sure what you are doing but you may want to instead search the
directories you want with find instead of using locate.
On Mar 8, 2015 10:36 AM, "der.hans" <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:

> Am 08. Mär, 2015 schwätzte joe at actionline.com so:
>
> moin moin Joe,
>
> I don't see an exclude option for locate, so you probably want to use the
> -v option for grep. -v says to show anything that doesn't match the
> pattern.
>
> $ echo anke | grep -v fred
> anke
> $
>
> $ echo 'anke
>
>> fred' | grep -v fred
>>
> anke
> $
>
> BTW, the man page says -y is an old synonym for -i, so you might want to
> use -i rather than -y unless you have a compatability issue somewhere.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
>  How can I exclude a specified directory (or perhaps more than one)
>> from a 'locate' search for files containing a certain name or word
>> on my system?
>>
>> For example, I frequently now use the following:
>>
>> $ locate filename | fgrep -ya "/home/joe" <E>
>>
>> How could I modify that to exclude all files with the specified
>> filename in one (or more) specified subdirectories?
>>
>>
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