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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Find command to exclude directories and setup alias or script? Post 302533555 by neutronscott on Friday 24th of June 2011 04:08:54 AM
Old 06-24-2011
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.

Last edited by neutronscott; 06-24-2011 at 05:04 AM.. Reason: quotations around arguments
 

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