Solaris

Yes, sure.
All SysV-derived Unixes have -xdev.

Yes. In the example I use, /export and /export/home have separate mount points. I only want /export (and subdirectories) BUT NOT /export/home.

SO I guess I'll give this a try.

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Hmmm. Not working too well.

I think its because the find command finds directory names within the filesystem (like /export/home) but not the files within that directory (because of xdev).

Trouble is that tar then attempts to tar everything in that directory anyway.

Sound about right?

I've run find . -xdev > tarlist and then looked at tarlist and this confirms it. I guess what I need to do is stop tar looking at directory names and tarring the contents.

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Hmmm. Was thinking of using

Code:

find . -xdev ! -type d

But of course, using my example, you'd lose directories that were empty such as, say /export/1.

Wondering if way forward is to exclude directories based on the "other" mount points?

Of course, if I could get tar not to recurse it'd be fine. Not sure if its possible with solaris though.

Code:

find /export -xdev

should not print a mounted /export/home.
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In principle cpio works better with find.

Code:

cd /export && find . -xdev -cpio /tmp/export.cpio

and this cpio archive can be listed with

Code:

cpio -idt < /tmp/export.cpio

And extracted to the current directory with

Code:

cpio -id < /tmp/export.cpio

Thanks MIG.

Spookily, I got it working with CPIO as you say.