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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using find with -prune to skip a specific pathname using Solaris Post 302290604 by antonino on Monday 23rd of February 2009 05:22:53 PM
Old 02-23-2009
Using find with -prune to skip a specific pathname using Solaris
I'm trying to prune out the findings of a certain directory path and have something like the following workiing on Linux (Linux 2.6.9-67.0.7.ELsmp #1 SMP x86_64):
find . -path 'test/tmp' -prune -o -print

I now need to have this working on sun/solaris (SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-34 sun4u sparc SUNW,Netra-T12) and noticed that the find command there doesn't support the "-path" argument:
$ find . -path 'test/tmp' -prune -o -print
find: bad option -path
find: path-list predicate-list
$

I tried using '-name' instead of '-path', however, when I use
find . -name 'test/tmp' -prune -o -print
all the files and dirs under the test/tmp hierarchy is found as if there was no matching expression to be pruned out.

I also tried to use just 'tmp' within '-name' as in
find . -name 'tmp' -prune -o -print
and even though this suppressed the finding of the test/tmp hierarchy, it also excluded other "tmp" directories under different paths that I don't want "find" to exclude (ie. /var/tmp, /etc/tmp, /tmp, ...)

I read that some versions of the "find" command also supports a "-wholename" variant, but I'm afraid the /usr/bin/find command on the Sun/Solaris machine I'm using doesn't seem to have it available.

Any ideas on how I can use find on sun/solaris to recursively find all the files and directories but skipping a single specific directory tree?

Thanks in advance!
 

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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
	   Do not remove anything; just report what it would remove.

       -v
	   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:

	   .ft C
	   $ git prune $(cd ../another && $(git rev-parse --all))
	   .ft

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)

AUTHOR

       Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org[1]>

DOCUMENTATION

       Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org[2]>.

GIT

       Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES

	1. torvalds@osdl.org
	   mailto:torvalds@osdl.org

	2. git@vger.kernel.org
	   mailto:git@vger.kernel.org

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