On Sunday 18 February 2007, Chris Jones wrote: > 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' > I wouldn't have guessed that. I've not come across 'grep -v' before, but it's one worth remembering, thanks. Anne
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