Re: Dumping COMPLETE slocate (updatedb) database?

From: Alexander Skwar (alexander_at_skwar.name)
Date: 07/10/05 

Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 10:03:29 +0200

ยท No_One <no_one@no_where.com>:

> On 2005-07-10, Alexander Skwar <alexander@skwar.name> wrote:

>> Is there some way to dump the slocate.db? Or to modify the
>> "locate" binary, so that this check is not done?
>
> if I understand what you want then....
>
> to dump the contents of the db just run
>
> slocate / > somefilename
>
> The forward slash should match all entries in your locate db.

Yep. But it will only print those files, that exist when
slocate is run. IOW: It will not print those files, that
are listed in the database but don't exist anymore.

Alexander Skwar 

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