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by **aar..** » Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:00:00

Does anyone know of a better utility than the stock 'find' command? I'm
trying to get find to make a file listing while omitting certain directories
and files and it just doesnt seem to work and I can find zero help on this
particular functionality of find despit coming through the oreilly books, man
pages, and google.
Does anyone know of a replacement for find that maybe a bit more useful or
intuitive? Thanks..

This is what I'm trying to do:
/bin/nice /usr/bin/find / -mtime -3 -print -path /proc -o -name 'kcore*'
-prune> /root/backupfiles

..aiming to get a listing of all files omitting the /proc files and the
"kcore" file..

Aaron Price
American Association of Variable Star Observers, www.aavso.org
"We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of the dreams." - Roald Dahl

by **Frank Mil** » Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:00:00

> Does anyone know of a better utility than the stock 'find' command? I'm
>trying to get find to make a file listing while omitting certain directories
>and files and it just doesnt seem to work and I can find zero help on this
>particular functionality of find despit coming through the oreilly books, man
>pages, and google.
> Does anyone know of a replacement for find that maybe a bit more useful or
>intuitive? Thanks..

>This is what I'm trying to do:
>/bin/nice /usr/bin/find / -mtime -3 -print -path /proc -o -name 'kcore*'
>-prune> /root/backupfiles

> ..aiming to get a listing of all files omitting the /proc files and the
>"kcore" file..

>Aaron Price
>American Association of Variable Star Observers, www.aavso.org
>"We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of the dreams." - Roald Dahl

How about piping the results through 'grep -v /proc' ?

-frank

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by **Paul Kimo** » Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:00:00

> Does anyone know of a better utility than the stock 'find' command? I'm
> trying to get find to make a file listing while omitting certain directories
> and files and it just doesnt seem to work and I can find zero help on this
> particular functionality of find despit coming through the oreilly books, man
> pages, and google.

Have you studied the `find' info pages? That is where GNU find is
documented.

Quote:> This is what I'm trying to do:
> /bin/nice /usr/bin/find / -mtime -3 -print -path /proc -o -name 'kcore*' \
> -prune> /root/backupfiles

Don't you mean something more like "-path /proc -prune -o -print"?
(The only kcore on my system is in /proc anyway.) Warning: I have never
used "-prune".

Quote:> Does anyone know of a replacement for find that maybe a bit more useful or
> intuitive? Thanks..

If you write Perl, then you might try find2perl.

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by **Dan Merc** » Fri, 11 Feb 2000 04:00:00

> Does anyone know of a better utility than the stock 'find' command? I'm
> trying to get find to make a file listing while omitting certain directories
> and files and it just doesnt seem to work and I can find zero help on this
> particular functionality of find despit coming through the oreilly books, man
> pages, and google.
> Does anyone know of a replacement for find that maybe a bit more useful or
> intuitive? Thanks..

> This is what I'm trying to do:
> /bin/nice /usr/bin/find / -mtime -3 -print -path /proc -o -name 'kcore*'
> -prune> /root/backupfiles

> ..aiming to get a listing of all files omitting the /proc files and the
> "kcore" file..

> Aaron Price
> American Association of Variable Star Observers, www.aavso.org
> "We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of the dreams." - Roald Dahl

Ftwalk - find on steroids. Very awkish. Don't leave $HOME without it.

http://www.ocston.org/~thull/ftwalk/

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Dan Mercer

Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of my employer.

by **Alan Donova** » Tue, 15 Feb 2000 04:00:00

> This is what I'm trying to do:
> /bin/nice /usr/bin/find / -mtime -3 -print -path /proc -o -name 'kcore*'
> -prune> /root/backupfiles

> ..aiming to get a listing of all files omitting the /proc files and the
> "kcore" file..

Try:

find / $ -path /proc -prune $ -o -print

BTW, isn't kcore in /proc anyway?

Yes find seems arcane but as with all UNIX tools, you only have to learn
it once.

alan

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by **Lee All** » Thu, 17 Feb 2000 04:00:00

I agree with the answer to pipe it into grep: that's what I always do,
and the resulting combination is very powerful & flexible.

Another common 'find' option is -mount, which tells it to exclude
'other' filesystems. This would exclude /proc because it's another
filesystem. I generally include -mount because it avoids the SLOW
process of searching through any remote (NFS) filesystems I may have
mounted, a CD-ROM drive, etc.

> Does anyone know of a better utility than the stock 'find' command? I'm
>trying to get find to make a file listing while omitting certain directories
>and files and it just doesnt seem to work and I can find zero help on this
>particular functionality of find despit coming through the oreilly books, man
>pages, and google.
> Does anyone know of a replacement for find that maybe a bit more useful or
>intuitive? Thanks..

>This is what I'm trying to do:
>/bin/nice /usr/bin/find / -mtime -3 -print -path /proc -o -name 'kcore*'
>-prune> /root/backupfiles

> ..aiming to get a listing of all files omitting the /proc files and the
>"kcore" file..

>Aaron Price
>American Association of Variable Star Observers, www.aavso.org
>"We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of the dreams." - Roald Dahl

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