Next Welcome to my ~/bin 78

Building the `locate` database

This used to be done by some special-purpose command called updatedb

I replaced updatedb with a Perl program

It's just a rather thin wrapper around find

It starts like this:

        #!/usr/bin/perl
        use strict 'vars';

        my @PRUNE = ();
        my $ROOT = '/';
        my $DEF_OUTPUT = '/var/lib/slocate/FILES';
        my $OUTPUT = $DEF_OUTPUT;

The next section is another handwritten option parsing section

I really have no excuse for this

Move along, nothing to see here

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