Greg Wooledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 08:56:56PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > I thought people should know the find(1) program...so it should be obvious 
> > to 
> > call
> > 
> >     mkisofs -o some-file -find . ! -path 'pattern'
>
> You'd be amazed at how poorly understood find is.  I've been doing Unix

I already realized this, it seems that most people habe problems in 
understanding the idea behind find.

> stuff for over 15 years now, and I still have to re-read the documentation
> every time someone asks how to use find -prune.  (! -path will still
> descend into every subdirectory, even the ones that will be thrown away;
> -prune causes find to skip over subdirectories entirely, saving a lot
> of time.  But it's hard to use because of awkward syntax and a lack of
> useful examples in the man pages -- in particular, the GNU man pages.)
>
>     find . -path 'pattern' -prune -o -print

Well, then you should try to have a look at the sfind man page....


Jörg

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