Application Inquiry

[Patrick Doyle]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:46 PM, neil al <nva0721 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> May I know what is the meaning of this find command :
> /usr/bin/find / -ignore_readdir_race ( -fstype NFS -o -fstype nfs -o -fstype
> nfs4 -o -fstype afs -o -fstype binfmt_misc -o -fstype proc -o -fstype smbfs
> -o -fstype autofs -o -fstype iso9660 -o -fstype ncpfs -o -fstype coda -o
> -fstype devpts -o -fstype ftpfs -o -fstype devfs -o -fstype mfs -o -fstype
> shfs -o -fstype sysfs -o -fstype cifs -o -fstype lustre_lite -o -fstype
> tmpfs -o -fstype usbfs -o -fstype udf -o -fstype ocfs2 -o -type d -regex
> \(^/tmp$\)\|\(^/usr/tmp$\)\|\(^/var/tmp$\)\|\(^/afs$\)\|\(^/amd$\)\|\(^/alex$\)\|\(^/var/spool$\)\|\(^/sfs$\)\|\(^/media$\)\|\(^/var/lib/schroot/mount$\)
> ) -prune -o -print0

Do you want to know what this command does, or do you want to know why
it happens to be running on your system?

If the former, I'd direct you at the man page for the "find" command,
but, in a nutshell, it is recursively listing all of the files on your
system, stopping at NFS mounted directories, special directories, /tmp
directories, etc...

If the latter, I'm afraid I can't help you.

--wpd