03-29-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by reborg
You are explicitly including the files by using the find command, using find with the prune option to perform the directory exclusions should work for you.
I have been trying to work out the syntax to use prune but so far havent been successful.
What I am trying to accomplish is to list all files with -mtime -3 except for certain directories, (/dev, /proc, db, lost+found). I am sure that I am misunderstanding the man pages, but even the archives here and google havent cleared up what it is that I dont understand.
I have tried dozens of variations with varying degrees of output but no success.
find / -mtime -3 -wholename '/db' -prune -wholename '/dev' -prune -wholename '/proc' -prune
This one produces only two lines of output "/dev", "/proc".
find / \( -type d -regex "/dev" -prune \) -o \( -type d -regex "/proc" -prune \) -o \( -type d -regex "/media" -prune \) -type f -mtime -3
Could someone give me a clue as to how to accomplish this, I really am lost right now.
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git-prune
GIT-PRUNE(1) Git Manual GIT-PRUNE(1)
NAME
git-prune - Prune all unreachable objects from the object database
SYNOPSIS
git prune [-n] [-v] [--expire <expire>] [--] [<head>...]
DESCRIPTION
Note
In most cases, users should run git gc, which calls git prune. See the section "NOTES", below.
This runs git fsck --unreachable using all the refs available in refs/, optionally with additional set of objects specified on the command
line, and prunes all unpacked objects unreachable from any of these head objects from the object database. In addition, it prunes the
unpacked objects that are also found in packs by running git prune-packed.
Note that unreachable, packed objects will remain. If this is not desired, see git-repack(1).
OPTIONS
-n, --dry-run
Do not remove anything; just report what it would remove.
-v, --verbose
Report all removed objects.
--
Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
--expire <time>
Only expire loose objects older than <time>.
<head>...
In addition to objects reachable from any of our references, keep objects reachable from listed <head>s.
EXAMPLE
To prune objects not used by your repository nor another that borrows from your repository via its .git/objects/info/alternates:
$ git prune $(cd ../another && git rev-parse --all)
NOTES
In most cases, users will not need to call git prune directly, but should instead call git gc, which handles pruning along with many other
housekeeping tasks.
For a description of which objects are considered for pruning, see git fsck's --unreachable option.
SEE ALSO
git-fsck(1), git-gc(1), git-reflog(1)
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
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