find is searching only current working folder but not sub directories when using the option "-xdev"

[senthil_kumar_1]

Hi All,

When using the below command, it is finding for files and folder with in current working directory only but not sub directories (recursively).

#find . -xdev -mtime +250 -exec rm -rf {} \;

At the same time if we use with out "-xdev" it is finding with in sub directories also.


How to solve this.

[Tingli]

Wasn't there a similar question a few days ago?

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

The '-xdev' switch of find() tells 'find' not to cross (descend into) mountpoints other than the one from which it began.

The is very useful if you want to search '/' but do _not_ want to visit the mountpoints like '/usr', '/var', '/opt', etc. In that case, though, directories like '/etc' and 'sbin' _would be_ examined because they are _not_ mountpoints, just directories subordinate to the root '/'.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Steven Schweda]

> How to solve this.

Non-psychics may have some trouble guessing
what's wrong, as we have no information on
"current working folder", or the file systems
on this system.

pwd
mount

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

By the way, you have a number of questions that you have asked during the last few days that remain unevaluated. Please don't forget to visit your profile, and review and evaluate them. Thanks.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Steven Schweda]

> Wasn't there a similar question a few days
> ago?

Do you mean a question with nowhere near
enough information in it? There's one every
few minutes, or so it seems.

[Tingli]

This is the link for the question a few days ago.

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1360840