Re: excluding .svn and symlinks from locate db

2008-03-25 Thread Karl Berry
However, did you try using the --findoptions argument to updatedb? I hadn't tried it in a while. When I went back and experimented some more, I found it could do what I wanted. So thanks, and never mind the whole thing :). Happy finding, karl

Interpretation of locate -r in various locate implementations

2008-03-25 Thread James Youngman
I understand that "locate -r" works differently between GNU locate on the one hand, and both mlocate and slocate on the other. GNU locate uses Emacs-dialect regular expressions. Both mlocate and slocate use POSIX BREs. (Although the GNU locate manual page states that "." will match a newline