> 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?
Right, find / -xdev ... will do it, at the cost of excluding other mounted file systems too. So depending on your search you might need e.g. find / /cygdrive/c -xdev ... Then again excluding /cygdrive/* might be what you want. -- 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
