simple locate question

[Jeremy Johnston]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>"Florian Hengstberger" <e0025265 at student.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
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>>How to creata a second locate database for private use?
>>(mp3 database or so).
>>I have tried
>>$ locate -U dir_with_mp3s -o database.dtb
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>>Searching in this database doent work
>>$ locate -d database.dtb somesong.mp3
>>gives no result.
>>The database exists and it looks ok, seems to be a simple
>>ascii format.
>>What am I doing wrong?
>>I guess its simple, isn't it!
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>I don't know; the standard locate program doesn't take a -U option,
>and will give an error message accordingly if called the way you claim
>you did.  Have you installed some other version of locate?
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>To use the standard locate, you use the locate.updatedb(8) script, as
>the locate(1) manual will tell you.
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FCODES="database.dtb"; SEARCHPATHS="dir_with_mp3s";
export FCODES; export SEARCHPATHS;
/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

then of course using locate -d database.dtb somefile

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