Filter the output of locate not to show the Duplicates in rsnapshot

rubo77

4/15/23, 4:37 AM

When I use locate on my server and the result is in my rsnapshot backup then I get all those duplicates.

I could use grep to filter out all rsnapshot files:

locate something_in_backup | grep -v /var/cache/rsnapshot

but then I would miss files in the backup that are coming from other servers.

How could I filter the output to show only results from the rsnapshot/daily.0/ folder?

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user10489

4/15/23, 5:34 AM

Best way would be to find the scripts that build the locate database and add the directories you want to filter to the blacklist in the script.

rubo77

4/15/23, 6:03 AM

Good idea, but I don't want that, because, I need all old backupped files in the locate database also

user10489

4/15/23, 6:15 AM

If you don't want to prune the database, then `grep -v` is your friend. Locate can do some pattern matching, but it doesn't have a blacklist feature. Although it can filter by permissions, so you could make the directories unsearchable to some users.

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rubo77

4/15/23, 8:13 AM

You can use regular expressions in the grep command:

locate something_in_backup | grep -v 'rsnapshot/\(hourly.[1-5]\|daily\|weekly\|monthly\)'

or if you don't backup hourly:

locate something_in_backup | grep -v 'rsnapshot/\(daily.[1-7]\|weekly\|monthly\)'

note the right escaping of pipe and brackets

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Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Filter the output of locate not to show the Duplicates in rsnapshot

TH: กรองผลลัพธ์ของตำแหน่งที่จะไม่แสดงรายการที่ซ้ำกันใน rsnapshot

RO: Filtrați rezultatul locate pentru a nu afișa duplicatele în rsnapshot

RU: Отфильтруйте вывод locate, чтобы не отображать дубликаты в rsnapshot

VI: Lọc đầu ra của định vị để không hiển thị Bản sao trong rsnapshot

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