[PLUG] Searching all filesystems except /proc

David Fleck david.fleck at mchsi.com
Sun Sep 30 22:29:18 UTC 2018


On Sun, 2018-09-30 at 14:46 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>    I want to exclude /proc from being examined by 'find' when searching for
> a file from /. I did not see an option in the man page to exclude specific
> partitions. Is there a way to have find ignore /proc?

Not exactly what you want, but you can specify file system type with 
-fstype xxx.  Anything in /proc is fstype 'proc',  so maybe you could
specify "! -fstype proc" as one of your sets of arguments to find.




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