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Re: Strange message from updatedb


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According to Phil Edwards on 2/27/2007 11:50 AM:
> 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.

I've reported this upstream.  I also agree with Enrico's suggestion of
using . instead of a quoted space, since that is the regex character that
will match a space:

updatedb --prunepaths='/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS /cygdrive/e /cygdrive/d
/cygdrive/z cygdrive/y /proc /cygdrive/c/System.Volume.Information
/usr /var
/cygdrive/c/Documents.and.Settings/furashg/Local.Settings/Temporary.Internet.Files
/usr/bin /cygdrive/c/System.Volume.Information /c/cygwin'

> 
> 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.

Perhaps that was in distro-modified versions.  I just included updatedb as
it is upstream, plus a single patch to recognize that on cygwin, the
filesystem recognition code doesn't work very well.

> 
> 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.
> 

I agree that directory name lists should look like a PATH, and not be
space separated, but we will see what the upstream maintainer thinks.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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