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?
Doesn't the -xdev switch help with this? --VH -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
