I'd like to use mlocate on my Ubuntu server, but only to index certain directories (e.g. /home and /data, but not everything under /). However, mlocate's standard configuration works the opposite way; you specify the paths you want to remove (with PRUNE_PATHS).
Is there any easy way to achieve this, or any similar utility that will do what I want? (note: it should maintain an index like mlocate, so find is not acceptable, for example) Thanks.
Nano is the editor I use in command prompts.
When I open a large file I would like to search for some text (think Ctrl + F).
Is there a way to do this?
I am trying to find the installation directory of a particular package. I have a certain keyword using which I am trying to find a particular file.
During grep, I only want to include cpp or h file type. I do not want the grep to show warnings like Permission Denied or Could not find the Directory. I just want it to display matched files, nothing else. Please suggest how can I do this?
At present I am using
grep "My term" -ir --exclude-dir="\.svn" --include=*.{cpp,h} ./
After doing a man apt-get and cursory Google search it's not clear how I find new programs to install (from the internet) using apt-get (which is amazingly powerful and simple coming from another Linux distro).
I'm using Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS (an inherited system used for some random work), so no GUI.
Anyone have quick advice here?