Re: "insert" or "remove" a filename from locatedb

[James Youngman]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Gary Hassani <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Anyone of a way (program) that will 'insert' or 'delete' a file from a
> locatedb?

locate won't support in-place modification of its database.  But you
can re-write it.   For example, you can dump al the entries in the
database with

locate --null --regex ""

And then edit the resulting stream of (NUL-terminated) paths to omit
any items you want to delete.   You then feed the stream to frcode to
generate a new database.  See the updatedb shell script for details.
Adding files would be similar, though for that case you also need to
ensure that the file list is sorted.

James.

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> In other words. given a locatedb and a filename is it possible to insert
> that filename into the locatedb?

In general there may not be a "the" locatedb since multiple databases
are supported.

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> Similarly given a locatedb and a filename is it possible to remove that
> filename from the locatedb ?
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> Thanks very much.
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