topic Re: Find command help in Operating System - HP-UX

Find command help

rhansen — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:34:24 GMT

Hello,

I am using find command to files with unknown UID/GID on HP-UX server. Below is part of the code that I am using:

case "$OSNAME" in
HP-UX) print "Finding unknown files"
find / -path "/var/spool/cron/atjobs" -prune -o \
-path "/dev" -prune -o \
$ -fsonly vxfs -o -fsonly hfs $ \
$ -nouser -o -nogroup $ -print | xargs ls -ls

And I am reading the output
cat /var/adm/issuance/find.log | mailx -s

The problem is the ls -ld is actually doing the ls -ld on the /var/adm/issuance rather than the find command.

Please help!

Thanks.

Re: Find command help

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:47:28 GMT

Hi:

You're making this much harder than it needs to be. I would simply use:

# find / $ -nouser -o -nogroup $ -exec ls -ld {} +

...since most filesystems are VxFS ones anyway. If you like, though:

# find / $ -nouser -o -nogroup $ -a $ -fstype vxfs -o -fstype hfs $ -exec ls -ld {} +

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Find command help

rhansen — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:13:40 GMT

Thanks James.

Re: Find command help

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:17:58 GMT

Hi (again):

I should add that if you truly want to skip (for example, the '/dev' directory) you could do:

# find / ! -path "/dev/*" $ -nouser -o -nogroup $ -exec ls -ld {} +

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Find command help

Dennis Handly — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:39:16 GMT

>JRF: I should add that if you truly want to skip you could do:
find / ! -path "/dev/*"

These are not the droids you are looking for. :-)
This doesn't "skip" files but simply doesn't print them.

The correct primary is the hard to understand and poorly documented "-prune", which stops descending the directory tree.
find / -name /dev -prune -o $ -nouser -o -nogroup $ -exec ls -ld {} +

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1276654
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1322635
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1309998
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1303248

Re: Find command help

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:14:01 GMT

Hi (again):

> Dennis: The correct primary is the hard to understand and poorly documented "-prune",

Yes, that's an understatement :-)

> Dennis: find / -name /dev -prune -o $ -nouser -o -nogroup $ -exec ls -ld {} +

No, this should be a simple, single directory name without leading or embedded slashes:

find / -name dev -prune -o $ -nouser -o -nogroup $ -exec ls -ld {} +

Regards!

...JRF...