Filter not working
 

All,

I'm running the cmd:
but always still have the "ProJects" directory showing in the results.

What is not right with my grep statement?

Thanks!

TBNK

You have different brackets

TheEzekielProject,

Thanks for the bracket check, but still getting this/these directories in the output:

Do I need to use REGEX instead? It seems to work better when the dir you are filtering out is in the middle of the dir string. Am I right?

So what is The Ezekiel Project?

Cheers!

TBNK

Can I get some help here?

I think the problem is that the o/p of 'locate' is effectively a bunch of strings (as opposed to eg grep -r , which is actually reading the dir nodes content ).

Try using 'grep -v' or even 'egrep -v' on the 'locate' o/p.

HTH

don't use locate for changing, user created content.
also, since you are piping locate's output to grep, i don't think the --exclude-dir option makes any sense there.

please explain what you are trying to achieve, we will help you formulate a better command.

You did not tell us how did you fix that problem in post #2. So how can we go further?

Followup
 

All,

Following up on all my open threads, looking to close/solve them all.

Cheers!

TBNK

Moderator Response
 

Do not bump necro threads unless you have relative content as OP;

Both are different "ProJects" and "Projects" in the context of case sensitivity.

You can try:

Quote:

grep -i -r dropbox --exclude-dir=[\*Pro?ects*\]

-r = for recursive search

Good luck!

this is completely wrong.
--exlcude-dir has only any effect if you use recursive search (grep -r), not when grepping stdin.
From the other hand grep -v <pattern> may work (as it was already suggested).

Yes, I would like to see a follow up from you. If it was still a problem for you, if you have already tried any suggestion posted.

All,

As a KDE user, I normally use "KFind" which searches the entire system including any flash drives active, but kfind sometimes blows on install, so not always available.

Both "find" and "locate" are limited to the "/home" directory!

What is needed is a command line equivalent of "kfind" that will search the entire system by default.

I'll try to find the right board to post this one so the OS level gurus will create the right command for this!

If anyone has a bash script that equals "kfind"; I'll go ahead and mark this solved. Please share if you have such a script!

Cheers!

TBNK

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