Strange message from updatedb

Phil Edwards phil.m.edwards@gmail.com
Wed Feb 28 19:06:00 GMT 2007


> Try replacing spaces ' ' with dots '.' in the paths specified with --prunepaths.
> In a regexp a dot matches any character.

I had tried that, but
   --prunepaths='/cygdrive/c/System.Volume.Information'
still caused the corresponding directory to be searched.  I didn't have
time to look further then, maybe somebody else will beat me to it.

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