On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:47:41AM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote: > If it's using sed to build a regex and match against that, is it > quoting regex metachars? If not you could replace the spaces with > periods and it should work - although it would also prune any other > paths that were the same other than replacing the space with something > else.
Ah, a good thought. No, it isn't checking for regexp metachars. But, while I was reading through the updatedb script investigating this, another possibility occurred to me. If I set the PRUNEREGEX environment variable to a regexp matching all the directories I want to omit, this will override any --prunepaths setting. I think that's probably cleaner, as long as we're mucking about with undocumented features of updatedb anyway. In any case, I'll submit a bug/feature request about this to the upstream folks soon. Thanks! Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
