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08-04-2010

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Hum... I did a search for updatedb.conf and found nothing, on the other hand I found this file which I think probably does the same thing of the file you talked.

Code:

#
# /etc/locate.rc -  command script for updatedb(8)
#
# $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/locate/locate/locate.rc,v 1.9 2005/08/22 08:22:48 cperciva Exp $

#
# All commented values are the defaults
#
# temp directory
#TMPDIR="/tmp"

# the actual database
#FCODES="/var/db/locate.database"

# directories to be put in the database
#SEARCHPATHS="/"

# directories unwanted in output
#PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/tmp"

# filesystems allowed. Beware: a non-listed filesystem will be pruned
# and if the SEARCHPATHS starts in such a filesystem locate will build
# an empty database.
#
# be careful if you add 'nfs'
#FILESYSTEMS="hfs ufs"

So in the PRUNEPATHS part I don't' see my home (which I suppose it's mounted because I'm the only user of this Mac and it is my home folder).

PS: How do I search for a word while reading a man page of locate?

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

locate

LOCATE(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 LOCATE(1)

NAME

     locate -- find files

SYNOPSIS

     locate [-d dbpath] pattern

DESCRIPTION

     locate searches a database for all pathnames which match the specified pattern.  The database is recomputed periodically, and contains the
     pathnames of all files which are publicly accessible.

     Shell globbing and quoting characters (``*'', ``?'', ``'', ``['' and ``]'') may be used in pattern, although they will have to be escaped
     from the shell.  Preceding any character with a backslash (``'') eliminates any special meaning which it may have.  The matching differs in
     that no characters must be matched explicitly, including slashes (``/'').

     As a special case, a pattern containing no globbing characters (``foo'') is matched as though it were ``*foo*''.

     Options:

     -d dbpath
	   Sets the list of databases to search to dbpath which can name one or more database files separated by ``:'', an empty component in the
	   list represents the default database.  The environment variable LOCATE_PATH has the same effect.

FILES

     /var/db/locate.database	   Default database

EXIT STATUS

     locate exits with a 0 if a match is found, and >0 if no match is found or if another problem (such as a missing or corrupted database file)
     is encountered.

SEE ALSO

     find(1), fnmatch(3), locate.conf(5), weekly.conf(5), locate.updatedb(8)

     Woods, James A., "Finding Files Fast", ;login, 8:1, pp. 8-10, 1983.

HISTORY

     The locate command appeared in 4.4BSD.

BSD
								  April 19, 2004							       BSD

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