Hello,


Here's a nice (idiotic) question.

How to exclude a file/folder from search ?

Case:
We have a standard / .
In / there exists /mnt that has several folders, each pointing to different hdd's. If one wants to search the / partition but not descend into /mnt, what would the corect command be ?

Tryed some combination of "-prune, -path" but faile mizerably.



Thx.

See this post for a detailed explanation.

thx...

-xdev, or, if you find it more readable, -mount.

Note, this is by side-effect that it doesn't descend into directories in /mnt. What -xdev/-mount do is stop "find" from descending into directories on other filesystems. If you have multiple mount points, you could:

# for dir in `df -l | grep / | cut -d'%' -f2`; do find $dir <options> -xdev; done

It'll launch multiple "find" processes, but it'll effectively exclude all remote filesystems.

You also could figure out a way to negate -fstype arg to "find", but I couldn't seem to locate anything on that.