find / finds /proc: rather annoying

2007-01-25 Thread fergus
I either missed or was too stupid to understand the response, if there was one, to an earlier anguished query: is it possible to qualify the command find / with a switch so that /proc is not found? If so can you tell me how? I feel sure that as recently as half a year ago or so, all

Re: find / finds /proc: rather annoying

2007-01-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to fergus on 1/25/2007 6:38 AM: I either missed or was too stupid to understand the response, if there was one, to an earlier anguished query: is it possible to qualify the command find / with a switch so that /proc is not found? If

Re: find / finds /proc: rather annoying

2007-01-25 Thread Frodak
--- fergus wrote: I either missed or was too stupid to understand the response, if there was one, to an earlier anguished query: is it possible to qualify the command find / with a switch so that /proc is not found? If so can you tell me how? I find / -wholename '/proc' -prune