Try find / -fstype urfs -prune -o -name core With the new Sun OS
you don't need the -print on the end. To use meta characters put the name
in quotes like "core*". Good luck..................
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan Brown [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 6:38 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: find command ussage?
>
> I am struggling with the proper usage of the NIX "find" command on a
> Foxboro mangled (uh, make that integrated), Sun system.
>
> here's the scenario, I am running 6.1, which translates to Sun-OS
> 2.5.1.
> Foxboro seems to have mounted some of the remote machines under the
> /rem
> hierarchy. If I type, for instance, "find / -name core -print". I
> get
> a huge number of complaints about things in this /rem hierarchy
> which
> don't exist. I suspect that this is because of symlinks on the
> remote
> machines which don't point to valid places, when viewed from this
> hierarchy.
>
> What I really want to do, is limit find's search to local
> file-systems
> only.
>
> Now here is where it gets event stranger. I called Foxboro support
> to
> ask about this, and was told to use the following syntax:
>
> find / -fstype urfs -o name core -print.
>
> First, as far as I can determine "urfs" is not a valid file-system
> type.
> ufs, of course is, but the support person was adamant about urfs
> being
> correct. Second the -o (or) flag does not make sense here. What I
> think
> should be used here is an _and_, that is both conditions should be
> met
> before printing the filename. And is the default behavior here.
>
> Anyone have any clues here? And while I posting, what magic does
> Foxboro use to mount the /rem hierarchy? I would have used the
> automounter here, so that the remote machines are only mounted when
> I
> need them. This would have avoided this whole problem. Are they hard
> mounting the remote machines? I seem to have only some, not all, of
> my
> remote machines mounted on a given cluster (node).
>
> Thanks for any help on this.
>
>
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