Re: Skipping the /proc filesystem
Randall R Schulz wrote: At 18:15 2003-07-22, David A. Cobb wrote: 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 Would it make sense to identify the inodes under /proc/registry as not regular files (type f), but, say, devices (or other such special files)? -- Shankar. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: Skipping the /proc filesystem
Randall R Schulz wrote: At 18:15 2003-07-22, David A. Cobb wrote: 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 Would it make sense to identify the inodes under /proc/registry as not regular files (type f), but, say, devices (or other such special files)? No. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: Skipping the /proc filesystem
At 13:59 2003-07-23, Chris January wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: At 18:15 2003-07-22, David A. Cobb wrote: 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 Would it make sense to identify the inodes under /proc/registry as not regular files (type f), but, say, devices (or other such special files)? No. Chris, Just to clarify what may, due to quote trimming, appear to be a suggestion I made, the idea about using a special inode type for the /proc entries was not mine, it was David A. Cobb's. Randall Schulz -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Skipping the /proc filesystem
Maybe this is something any native *nix speaker knows, but I'm stull trudging up the learning curve. 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? -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner. -- The Way of a Pilgrim; R. M. French, tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software. . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Skipping the /proc filesystem
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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
