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Operating Systems Solaris correct usage of find's -prune option Post 302311751 by ProGrammar on Wednesday 29th of April 2009 12:22:16 PM
Old 04-29-2009
you're the man!

Pludi,

That was educating. Particularly when you underscored that find recognized the current working directory as a directory itself and pruned itself.

So comparing . (cwd) vs ./* (contents of current working directory) really drives the point home when you see the difference in results. I guess I thought the contents of the path specified was implied, but now I know better!

Awesome, thanks for squaring me away.Smilie

P3@cE!
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prune(1)						      General Commands Manual							  prune(1)

NAME
prune - Prune directed graphs SYNOPSIS
prune [ -n node ] [ -N attrspec ] [ files ... ] DESCRIPTION
prune reads directed graphs in the same format used by dot(1) and removes subgraphs rooted at nodes specified on the command line via options. These nodes themselves will not be removed, but can be given attributes so that they can be easily located by a graph stream edi- tor such as gvpr(1). prune correctly handles cycles, loops and multi-edges. Both options can appear multiple times on the command line. All subgraphs rooted at the respective nodes given will then be processed. If a node does not exist, prune will skip it and print a warning message to stderr. If multiple attributes are given, they will be applied to all nodes that have been processed. prune writes the result to the stdout. OPTIONS
-n name Specifies name of node to prune. -N attrspec Specifies attribute that will be set (or changed if it exists) for any pruned node. attrspec is a string of the form attr=value. EXAMPLES
An input graph test.dot of the form digraph DG { A -> B; A -> C; B -> D; B -> E; } , processed by the command prune -n B test.dot would produce the following output (the actual code might be formatted in a slightly different way). digraph DG { A -> B; A -> C; } Another input graph test.dot of the form digraph DG { A -> B; A -> C; B -> D; B -> E; C -> E; } (note the additional edge from C to E ), processed by the command prune -n B -N color=red test.dot results in digraph DG { B [color=red]; A -> B; A -> C; C -> E; } Node E has not been removed since its second parent C is not being pruned. EXIT STATUS
prune returns 0 on successful completion. It returns 1 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO
dot(1), gvpr(1) AUTHOR
Marcus Harnisch <marcus.harnisch@gmx.net> prune(1)
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