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Hi,

Firstly - sorry for the duplicate my other post looked like i was posting a how to for people. But i am wanting some help :P

I want to search from / to find files and exclude my mounted ntfs drives.

I have found this thread (Which I can't post the URL to until i have 5 posts) it's from this site https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...nd-syntax.html
QUESTION 1:

Is this still the best way to do it (the post is over 5 years old)?

QUESTION 2:

IF the above post is still the best way to do it I end up with the following command:

Code:

find / \( -wholename /mnt/C -prune \) -o \( -wholename /mnt/D  -prune \) -o \( -wholename /mnt/E -prune \) -o -name "TEST"  -print

Which I have configured the following alias for:

Code:

 alias findx='find / \( -wholename /mnt/C -prune \) -o \(  -wholename /mnt/D -prune \) -o \( -wholename /mnt/E -prune \)  -o'

Running

findx -name "TEST" -print

Works perfectly however, is there anyway I can have the alias setup to accept input like a script can or should I just put it in a script so it can accept parameters

for example

Code:

alias findx='find / \( -wholename /mnt/C -prune \) -o \(  -wholename /mnt/D -prune \) -o \( -wholename /mnt/E -prune \) -o -name  "%1" -print'

so I would be able to just run:

findx TEST

instead of having to put in -name "TEST" -print

If that's a no what would the easiest way to put this in a script, so i could run it that way?

QUESTION 3:

Again IF this is still the best way of doing it does this command

Code:

find / \( -wholename /mnt/C -prune \) -o \( -wholename /mnt/D  -prune \) -o \( -wholename /mnt/E -prune \) -o -name "TEST"  -print

Completely bypass the pruned directories or is it simply not printing anything from within those directories it finds? Because it seems to take an awful long time to search STILL even with those 3 drives excluded....

Thanks in advance for any assistance with this

maybe you can use -fstype for the prune?

you can script like:

test.sh:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
findx()
{
        find / \( -fstype proc -prune \) -o -name "$1" -print
}

echo "Find $1"
findx "$1"

---------- Post updated at 04:08 AM ---------- Previous update was at 03:52 AM ----------

oh you wanted an alias. you can in fact put functions in your .bashrc, aliases don't accept parameters.

Wow that's a brilliant idea i didn't even think of that I'll have a look at the fstype options now.

So you mean I could just paste this whole code into my bashrc and I could then run

findx TEST and it would work?

---------- Post updated at 03:44 AM ---------- Previous update was at 03:30 AM ----------


Lol man thanks for the hint i went hunting through find for filesystem and I found this option -mount - it skips mounted filesystems with this option.

so my function now (thanks to you) in bashrc looks like this:

Code:

findx()
{
        find / -mount -name "$1"
}

How much simpler does that look

I thought that would be what you wanted, but you did say "ntfs mounts"

while you can't change the arguments around with an alias, now your arguments are all at the end so you can use alias again if you'd like.

Code:

alias findx='find / -mount -name'

If you want speed you may look into 'locate'/'updatedb'

Thanks for that I am looking at those now also