Re: find / without traversing /proc

[Eliot Moss <moss at cs dot umass dot edu>]

On 4/27/2017 9:11 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Václav Haisman!
>
> > On 27 April 2017 at 10:49, wrote:
> > > The command "find /" takes forever, if it completes at all, because of the
> > > need to traverse the induced directory /proc. Is this directory often
> > > needed by users? Can it be skipped by setting up "export CYGWIN=something",
> > > or even by default, with the requirement on the user to induce it if needed?
> > > There seems to be no switch to the command find that would easily allow
> > > "but not this subdirectory": if there was, I wouldn't be asking. Quite a
> > > lot of surfing led me to
> > > $ find / \( -wholename /proc -o -wholename /dev \) -prune -o -print
> > > which is really heavyweight syntax for a simple requirement. I am pretty
> > > certain it leads to the behaviour required "do not traverse" though various
> > > posters seem to think it just leads to "traverse but do not report" saving
> > > almost nothing.
> > > Assuming the syntax is correct, I have not been able to incorporate any
> > > qualifiers such as -type d or -type f or -type l. Any ideas where to slot
> > > these so that they work?

The -o options are high level "or" choices.  Other flags like -type generally
have "and" semantics, and "and" binds more tightly than "or".  The conclusion
is" put these after your last -o, the filter after the pruning.

Regards - Eliot Moss

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