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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Strange output from find Post 302686303 by Lem on Tuesday 14th of August 2012 09:00:48 AM
Old 08-14-2012
First of all, please forgive my bad English.
Something you've written sounds a bit odd to me.

First: my find is GNU find 4.2.2 too, but my man find is like this one:
UNIX man pages : find ()
and not like this one:
find.

In my find manual I can't read any "given expression", but I read clearly: "If the expression contains no actions other than -prune, -print is performed on all files for which the expression is true."

Second: the manual I linked above is pretty clear about what is an expression, how is it made up of options, tests and actions, and what's find behaviour depending on them being true or false. If you haven't read it yet, I suggest you give it a try. I'm sure it will be of some help.

Third: action -prune doesn't mean "ignore it", but "do not descend into it, if it is a directory". So a pruned directory found by find is printed itself (but its content is ignored) if the action -print (the default action) is performed.

Fourth: besides Chubler_XL solution, you could go with:
Code:
find /home/xxxxxxxx -type d -iwholename "/home/xxxxxxxx/Backup/.system" -prune , -type f -perm -o+w

(however you don't need any parenthesis).
This way the first expression, before the comma, is evaluated (-prune works), but its return values are then discarded: the directory /home/xxxxxxxx/Backup/.system is found by the first expression in which -prune gives a true return value for that directory, but this true value is then discarded, so only true return values of the second expression (after the comma) will cause something to be printed (default action).
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Bye
 

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BACKUP(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 BACKUP(8)

NAME
backup - backup files SYNOPSIS
backup [-djmnorstvz] dir1 dir2 OPTIONS
-d At top level, only directories are backed up -j Do not copy junk: *.Z, *.bak, a.out, core, etc -m If device full, prompt for new diskette -n Do not backup top-level directories -o Do not copy *.o files -r Restore files -s Do not copy *.s files -t Preserve creation times -v Verbose; list files being backed up -z Compress the files on the backup medium EXAMPLES
backup -mz . /f0 # Backup current directory compressed backup /bin /usr/bin # Backup bin from RAM disk to hard disk DESCRIPTION
Backup (recursively) backs up the contents of a given directory and its subdirectories to another part of the file system. It has two typ- ical uses. First, some portion of the file system can be backed up onto 1 or more diskettes. When a diskette fills up, the user is prompted for a new one. The backups are in the form of mountable file systems. Second, a directory on RAM disk can be backed up onto hard disk. If the target directory is empty, the entire source directory is copied there, optionally compressed to save space. If the target directory is an old backup, only those files in the target directory that are older than similar names in the source directory are replaced. Backup uses times for this purpose, like make. Calling Backup as Restore is equivalent to using the -r option; this replaces newer files in the target directory with older files from the source directory, uncompressing them if necessary. The target directory con- tents are thus returned to some previous state. SEE ALSO
tar(1). BACKUP(8)
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