Bounty: 100
One advised me to post here since this would be more appropriate (I am going to remove the previous one).
On my MacBook, I have the following entry in root’s crontab:
0 */4 * * * cd /private/var/root && ./locate.updatedb
I have an alias for locate in ~/.zshrc:
alias locate='locate -d /var/db/locate.database'
When I do a "locate Table_Synthesis_GREY_" , in all the full paths of files found, the first slash of the path indicating the file system root is missing. Here is a sample of the ouput:
Users/henry/Projects/JUNK_AND_OLD/Travail_9_Paper_Combinaison_et_Methode_des_biais_communs_pour_ma_These_SAUVEGARDES/TABLES_FLAT_AND_NON_FLAT_to_include_into_my_Phd_paper_LAST/Table_Synthesis_Main_05_AOUT_2020/temp/Table_Synthesis_GREY_IMPORTANT_SAVE_5_AOUT_2020.run.xml
Users/henry/Projects/JUNK_AND_OLD/Travail_9_Paper_Combinaison_et_Methode_des_biais_communs_pour_ma_These_SAUVEGARDES/TABLES_FLAT_AND_NON_FLAT_to_include_into_my_Phd_paper_LAST/Table_Synthesis_Main_05_AOUT_2020/temp/Table_Synthesis_GREY_IMPORTANT_SAVE_5_AOUT_2020.tex
Users/henry/Projects/JUNK_AND_OLD/Travail_9_Paper_Combinaison_et_Methode_des_biais_communs_pour_ma_These_SAUVEGARDES/TABLES_FLAT_AND_NON_FLAT_to_include_into_my_Phd_paper_LAST/Table_Synthesis_Main_05_AOUT_2020/temp/Table_Synthesis_GREY_IMPORTANT_SAVE_5_AOUT_2020.zip
Users/henry/Projects/JUNK_AND_OLD/Travail_9_Paper_Combinaison_et_Methode_des_biais_communs_pour_ma_These_SAUVEGARDES/TABLES_FLAT_AND_NON_FLAT_to_include_into_my_Phd_paper_LAST/Table_Synthesis_Main_05_AOUT_2020/temp/Table_Synthesis_GREY_IMPORTANT_SAVE_5_AOUT_2020_ORIGINAL_INTO_zip_here.pdf
Users/henry/Projects/JUNK_AND_OLD/Travail_9_Paper_Combinaison_et_Methode_des_biais_communs_pour_ma_These_SAUVEGARDES/TABLES_FLAT_AND_NON_FLAT_to_include_into_my_Phd_paper_LAST/Table_Synthesis_Main_AFTER_05_AOUT_2020/FLAT_Synthesis/Table_Synthesis_GREY_FLAT.docx
How can I have paths output as absolute paths, i.e. starting at /Users? The desired output is
/Users/henry/Projects/JUNK_AND_OLD/Travail_9_Paper_Combinaison_et_Methode_des_biais_communs_pour_ma_These_SAUVEGARDES/TABLES_FLAT_AND_NON_FLAT_to_include_into_my_Phd_paper_LAST/Table_Synthesis_Main_AFTER_05_AOUT_2020/FLAT_Synthesis/Table_Synthesis_GREY_FLAT.docx
as opposed to
Users/henry/Projects/JUNK_AND_OLD/Travail_9_Paper_Combinaison_et_Methode_des_biais_communs_pour_ma_These_SAUVEGARDES/TABLES_FLAT_AND_NON_FLAT_to_include_into_my_Phd_paper_LAST/Table_Synthesis_Main_AFTER_05_AOUT_2020/FLAT_Synthesis/Table_Synthesis_GREY_FLAT.docx
UPDATE 1: I have copied /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb into my home root, that is in /var/root/ . I did that since I could not modify the /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb file, even being root or with sudo.
So in this other file /var/root/locate.updatedb, I could do the modification :
if [ "$(id -u)" = "99" ]; then
instead of initially :
if [ "$(id -u)" = "0" ]; then
What do you think about this trick ? and mostly why I have not the first slash displayed when results into my /Users/henry/.
0 */4 * * * cd /private/var/root ; /bin/sh locate.updatedb
but issue remains.
By the way, if results are located into /Applications or other main directories but not systematically, the first slash is well displayed.
The content of script is not very big, here is :
# $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/locate/locate/updatedb.sh,v 1.20 2005/11/12 12:45:08 grog Exp $
if [ "$(id -u)" = "99" ]; then
rc=0
export FCODES=`sudo -u nobody mktemp -t updatedb`
chown nobody $FCODES
tmpdb=`su -fm nobody -c "$0"` || rc=1
if [ $rc = 0 ]; then
install -m 0444 -o nobody -g wheel $FCODES /var/db/locate.database
fi
rm $FCODES
exit $rc
fi
: ${LOCATE_CONFIG="/etc/locate.rc"}
if [ -f "$LOCATE_CONFIG" -a -r "$LOCATE_CONFIG" ]; then
. $LOCATE_CONFIG
fi
# The directory containing locate subprograms
: ${LIBEXECDIR:=/usr/libexec}; export LIBEXECDIR
: ${TMPDIR:=/tmp}; export TMPDIR
if ! TMPDIR=`mktemp -d $TMPDIR/locateXXXXXXXXXX`; then
exit 1
fi
PATH=$LIBEXECDIR:/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH; export PATH
# 6497475
set -o noglob
: ${mklocatedb:=locate.mklocatedb} # make locate database program
: ${FCODES:=/var/db/locate.database} # the database
: ${SEARCHPATHS:="/"} # directories to be put in the database
: ${PRUNEPATHS:="/private/tmp /private/var/folders /private/var/tmp */Backups.backupdb"} # unwanted directories
: ${FILESYSTEMS:="hfs ufs apfs"} # allowed filesystems
: ${find:=find}
case X"$SEARCHPATHS" in
X) echo "$0: empty variable SEARCHPATHS"; exit 1;; esac
case X"$FILESYSTEMS" in
X) echo "$0: empty variable FILESYSTEMS"; exit 1;; esac
# Make a list a paths to exclude in the locate run
excludes="! (" or=""
for fstype in $FILESYSTEMS
do
excludes="$excludes $or -fstype $fstype"
or="-or"
done
excludes="$excludes ) -prune"
case X"$PRUNEPATHS" in
X) ;;
*) for path in $PRUNEPATHS
do
excludes="$excludes -or -path $path -prune"
done;;
esac
# Ignore the target of firmlinks
while read firmlink; do
excludes="$excludes -or -path $firmlink -prune"
done <<< "$(awk -F't' '{print "/System/Volumes/Data/" $2}' /usr/share/firmlinks)"
tmp=$TMPDIR/_updatedb$$
trap 'rm -f $tmp; rmdir $TMPDIR; exit' 0 1 2 3 5 10 15
# search locally
# echo $find $SEARCHPATHS $excludes -or -print && exit
if $find -s $SEARCHPATHS $excludes -or -print 2>/dev/null |
$mklocatedb -presort > $tmp
then
case X"`$find $tmp -size -257c -print`" in
X) cat $tmp > $FCODES;;
*) echo "updatedb: locate database $tmp is empty"
exit 1
esac
fi
Anyone has a clue ?