locate itself can have regexes and has quite a great load of switches to sort on. However, for a quick and dirty solution, | grep -v $EXCLUDESTRING On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 2:20 PM, wrote: > > I use the following command to locate all files that contain a specified > string (i.e. $FILE) within a specified directory: > > locate $FILE | fgrep -ya "/home/joe/mydata" > > How can I modify that command to do the same thing, except exclude all > paths that contain another specified string? > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James McPhee jmcphe@gmail.com