On Monday 19 February 2007, Vivek J. Patankar wrote: > Tony Nelson wrote: > >> Won't work. The database for /locate/ is updated by a cron job that runs > >> as root. So it will index the entire filesystem, except for exclusions > >> set in updatedb.conf. > > > > Does too work, as only the files that would be visible to the user > > running locate will be reported by locate. See man updatedb, and try it. > > Just RTFM'ed and tested too. I stand corrected. Thanks. > One of the delights of linux is the multitude of choices to achieve anything :-) Thanks to all Anne
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