find question

[Pete Holsberg]

H.S. keyed the following on 7/14/2007 11:56 AM:
> Pete Holsberg wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Whenever I do a find starting at /, it searches /proc! Is there a way to 
>> make find skip /proc?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>     
>
> Perhaps "-prune" will help? See:
> $> man find
>
> and search for prune.

Interesting! I used

find / -name proc -prune -o -name .profile 2>/dev/null

It did not run down the entire /proc hierarchy but it did report all 
files with "proc" in their names, such as all the stuff under 
/usr/src/linux-headers* !!


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Pete Holsberg
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