Am 08. Mär, 2015 schwätzte joe@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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