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find command and prune

dictum9 — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 03:11:55 GMT

This is on hp-ux 11.0

I need to run find and exclude NFS, CDFS as well as a few directories. I have the following command but it does not exclude dir1 nor dir2, why is that?

find / \( -fstype nfs -o -fstype cdfs -o -path /dir1 -o -path /dir2 \) -prune -print

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Re: find command and prune

Pete Randall — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:12:49 GMT

Try -name rather than -path.

Pete

Re: find command and prune

Kent Ostby — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:16:17 GMT

The way that's written, it's ONLY going to find those things.

Re: find command and prune

Kent Ostby — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:17:11 GMT

Sorry that last line was terrible grammer.

The way that's written, it's only going to find those paths.

Re: find command and prune

dictum9 — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:56:32 GMT

I have the following and it still does not work, meaning it still find directories /dir1 and /dir2.
What can be done to fix it?

find / ! \( -fstype nfs -o -fstype cdfs -o -name /dir1 -o -name /dir2 \) -print

Re: find command and prune

john korterman — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:04:33 GMT

Hi,

prune does not exclude, try the not operator instead, e.g.:

# find / -type f \( ! -fstype nfs ! -fstype cdfs ! -path "/dir1/*" ! -path "/dir2/*" \)

regards,
John K.

Re: find command and prune

Rodney Hills — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:34:28 GMT

Try-
find / ! \( -fstype nfs -o -fstype cdfs -o -path "/dir1/*" -o -path "/dir2/*" \) -print

HTH

Rod Hills

Re: find command and prune

Rodney Hills — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:35:27 GMT

Actually, I think this should work better-
find / \( -fstype nfs -o -fstype cdfs -o -path /dir1 -o -path /dir2 \) -prune -o -print

Same as what you had before, only put "-o" between -prune and -print.

HTH

-- Rod Hills

Re: find command and prune

dictum9 — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:33:19 GMT

find / ! \( -fstype nfs -o -fstype cdfs -o -path "/dir1/*" -o -path "/dir2/*" \) -print

This one worked, thank you. Turns out you don't need prune. Still a mystery to me why prune didn't work.

Re: find command and prune

Geoff Wild — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 19:05:36 GMT

Why not just do:

find / -fsonly vxfs -name FILENAME

Rgds...Geoff

Re: find command and -prune

Dennis Handly — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:25:13 GMT

>Why not just do: find / -fsonly vxfs -name FILENAME

That won't exclude those two directory paths.

>Turns out you don't need -prune.

-prune is needed so you don't keep finding (and excluding) files under the highest directory possible.