On Sunday 18 February 2007 10:01:15 am 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? > > Anne How about locate XXX | grep -v '/mnt/FC4' Chris ?
