-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This was reported on the cygwin list. Basically, updatedb --prunepaths is fundamentally broken, because it uses a space instead of PATH_SEPARATOR as the separator between directory names, which conflicts with uses of space in directory names.
A workaround was suggested of using . instead of ' ' in directory names that must be pruned, since that is the regex character that would match a space, and thus still filter the problematically named directory. If - --prunepaths is not adjusted to use a different separator character, then the documentation should be updated to mention this workaround. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Strange message from updatedb > Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:50:48 -0500 > From: Phil Edwards <phil.m.edwards AT gmail DOT com> > To: Furash Gary <furashg AT mcao DOT maricopa DOT gov> > CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > > On 2/27/07, Furash Gary wrote: > > /cygdrive/c/System\ Volume\ Information > > Quotes and backslashes aren't going to solve the problem, I think. I > looked at updatedb (it's a shell script), and the --prunepaths > argument is passed through a sed script which replaces spaces in order > to turn it all into a regexp. There's no way of telling sed to avoid > some spaces and translate others. > > You used to be able to set the internal PRUNEREGEX variable directly, > in a .conf file, but apparently that file is only used under Linux > versions of updatedb, or something. > > Most lists of dirs are passed around with colon (or some such) > separators to avoid just such problems with paths containing > whitespace. updatedb is still living in the 80's. > - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF5YCW84KuGfSFAYARAnpHAKCIdBfKL6Zs5xuo2n/wzwBSR8hy6gCgr1Rc Y70kgHUd1/+5GUrPcaGnUqw= =jWKh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list Bug-findutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
