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RE: Strange message from updatedb
So is there anything I can do for win cygwin?
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Edwards [mailto:phil.m.edwards@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 11:51 AM
To: Furash Gary
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com; ebb9@byu.net
Subject: Re: Strange message from updatedb
On 2/27/07, Furash Gary <furashg@mcao.maricopa.gov> wrote:
> /cygdrive/c/System\ Volume\ Information
Quotes and backslashes aren't going to solve the problem, I think. I
looked at updatedb (it's a shell script), and the --prunepaths argument
is passed through a sed script which replaces spaces in order to turn it
all into a regexp. There's no way of telling sed to avoid some spaces
and translate others.
You used to be able to set the internal PRUNEREGEX variable directly, in
a .conf file, but apparently that file is only used under Linux versions
of updatedb, or something.
Most lists of dirs are passed around with colon (or some such)
separators to avoid just such problems with paths containing whitespace.
updatedb is still living in the 80's.
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