Re: Locate with exclude?

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Anne Wilson wrote:

> I generally use locate to find a file, but I have /mnt/FC4root 
> and /mnt/FC4/home, and dozens of 'finds' are reported that are not relevant.  
> I'd like to use locate, telling it to ignore/mnt/FC4*, but nothing in the man 
> pages tells me that this is possible.
> 
> Does anyone have a solution to searching while excluding large areas like 
> this?

How about:

locate whatyouseek | grep -v /mnt/FC4

hth

ciao,
furlan


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