#!/bin/sh HOME_DB_FOLDER="$HOME/.cache" DB_FILE="locate.db" if [ "$1" = "-h" ]; then cat <&2 Usage: ${0##*/} [FOLDERS] Update the 'locate' databases for the home folder, external drives and the FOLDERS arguments. For folders other than home, databases are only updated if found, they are not automatically created (unless explicitly specified in the FOLDERS arguments). - The database for the home folder is stored in '$HOME_DB_FOLDER/$DB_FILE'. - Other databases are stored in '$DB_FILE' at the target root. EOF exit fi update() { [ $# -ne 2 ] && set -- "$1" "$1/locate.db" echo >&2 "Updating '$2' database for '$1'..." ## From https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/updatedb.conf?h=packages/mlocate. updatedb -l 0 -o "$2" -U "$1" \ --prune-bind-mounts=1 \ --prunefs="9p afs anon_inodefs auto autofs bdev binfmt_misc cgroup cifs coda configfs cpuset cramfs debugfs devpts devtmpfs ecryptfs exofs ftpfs fuse fuse.encfs fuse.sshfs fusectl gfs gfs2 hugetlbfs inotifyfs iso9660 jffs2 lustre mqueue ncpfs nfs nfs4 nfsd pipefs proc ramfs rootfs rpc_pipefs securityfs selinuxfs sfs shfs smbfs sockfs sshfs sysfs tmpfs ubifs udf usbfs vboxsf" \ --prunepaths="/gnu/store /afs /mnt /net /sfs /tmp /udev /var/cache /var/lib/pacman/local /var/lock /var/run /var/spool /var/tmp" \ --prunenames=".git .hg .svn .cache Trash .Trash-$(id -u) .snapshots" } update "$HOME" "$HOME_DB_FOLDER/$DB_FILE" # Lookup $1's root and direct subfolders (useful when it's a Btrfs partition with subvolumes). find_db() { if [ -f "$1/$DB_FILE" ]; then update "$1" else for i in "$1"/*; do if [ -f "$i/$DB_FILE" ]; then update "$i" fi done fi } ## Only update external media databases: for i in "/run/media/$USER"/* "/media/$USER"/*; do find_db "$i" done ## Only update non-external media: for i in "/media"/*; do [ "$i" = "/media/$USER" ] && continue find_db "$i" done ## Create database for the specified folders. for i; do [ -d "$i" ] && update "$i" done