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, <joe@actionline.com> 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?


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