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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


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