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Date: | Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:39:47 -0700 |
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From: | Randall R Schulz <rschulz AT sonic DOT net> |
Subject: | Re: Skipping the /proc filesystem |
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David, At 18:15 2003-07-22, David A. Cobb wrote: >Maybe this is something any native *nix speaker knows, but I'm stull >trudging up the learning curve. It is entirely non-Cygwin-specific, yes. >If I do a (cygwin) find for some fragment of a filename, I get a whole >pile of hits in the /proc/registry area - none of which is >relevant. I would wish to tell find not to get involved with the >/proc filesystem at all. > >Can that easily be done? Very easily: % find / -path '/proc' -prune -o -print To paraphrase, "find starting in slash pruning away any path names that begin with "/proc" and print all others." Randall Schulz >-- >David A. Cobb -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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