How to configure locate
so that it indexes all files including hidden ones?
Or what does locate
exclude in its search?
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My 'locate' shows hidden files (like ~/.bashrc). ???– user8290Jan 9, 2011 at 22:04
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Interesting, I can also search for .bashrc. However, I have other hidden folders that don't get searched for some reason. I did sudo updatedb as well.– m33lkyJan 9, 2011 at 22:15
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I also faced same problem but it got resolved just by the updatedb command.– Manish JainSep 6, 2013 at 18:28
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The default behavior does not explicitly exclude hidden folders. According to the manual for updatedb.conf, no paths are skipped except for those listed in PRUNENAMES
, which is unset by default:
$ cat /etc/updatedb.conf
PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS="yes"
# PRUNENAMES=".git .bzr .hg .svn"
PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/spool /media"
PRUNEFS="NFS nfs nfs4 rpc_pipefs afs binfmt_misc proc smbfs autofs iso9660 ncpfs coda devpts ftpfs devfs mfs shfs sysfs cifs lustre_lite tmpfs usbfs udf fuse.glusterfs fuse.sshfs ecryptfs fusesmb devtmpfs"
To verify this behavior, try:
$ sudo mkdir /.testfolder
$ sudo touch /.testfolder/.testfile
$ sudo updatedb -v | grep /\\.test
//.testfolder
/.testfolder/.testfile
$ locate test | grep /\\.test
/.testfolder
/.testfolder/.testfile
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1Oh, my /home/ is encrypted. See my follow-up question: askubuntu.com/questions/20821/…– m33lkyJan 9, 2011 at 23:01