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How do I exclude directories with the find command on Solaris?


I want to skip the directories /proc and /shared.

find / -nouser -print

This shows me all files and directories that don't have an owner but I need to skip /shared and /proc.

I've been able to get it to work on Linux and HP but not on Solaris. It appears that the -path option doesn't exist on solaris.

Thanks,
-x96

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/proc is easy to exclude

Code:

find / ! -fstype proc -nouser -print

If /shared happens to be an nfs filesystem that 1 is easy as well.

Code:

find / ! -fstype proc -a ! -fstype nfs -nouser -print

If /shared is not an nfs filesystem, but a local filesystem you can use

find <list of all filesystems except /proc and /shared> -mount -nouser -print.
e.g.

Code:

find / /var /opt /tmp -mount -nouser -print

If /shared is not a seperate filesystem but just a directory on a filesystem there is no option as far as I know, except to filter those results out.

Thanks for the info.

/shared is and nfs file system

[root@servername]/var/tmp>df -n | grep shared
/shared/candle : nfs
/shared/ssg : nfs
/shared/spd : nfs
/shared/dsm : nfs
[root@servername]/var/tmp>


When I run your command above:

find / ! -fstype proc -a ! -fstype nfs -nouser -print


I see this output:

find: cannot read dir /shared/candle/lost+found: Permission denied
find: cannot read dir /shared/candle/002/candledev/config/.ConfigData: Permission denied
find: cannot read dir /shared/candle/002/candledev/sol26: Permission denied
find: cannot read dir /shared/candle/00r2/candledev/config/.ConfigData: Permission denied


It appears that even though the perm won't let me, the find command is still NOT skipping /shared.

Thanks,
x96

try

find / ! -fstype proc -a -wholename './shared' -prune -o -nouser -print