Sheez. After about an hour or more, I found the right command to use. I don't know how to interpret the chicken stratching in updatedb, though. This command seems to work fine: find /mnt/NetWork -fstype smbfs -prune -o -print This skips the samba mounted shares. Joel
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:32:19PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: > I am using updatedb, like everyone, to keep track of the files on my linux > box. > The find command looks in part like this. > \( -fstype nfs -o -fstype NFS -o -type d -regex "$PRUNEREGEX" \) -prune -o > -print > I want to exclude smbfs file types too, but when I put -fstype smbfs, it > doesn't work. > strings `which find` | grep nfs or NFS or ext2 or smbfs does not show any > hits. > So, had can find recognize these file types if they are not in the binary? > Also, if someone can point me to a really simple discussion of find with > many userful examples, I would be most appreciative. > Joel > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
