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
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