Greetings, Václav Haisman! > On 27 April 2017 at 10:49, wrote: >> The command "find /" takes forever, if it completes at all, because of the >> need to traverse the induced directory /proc. Is this directory often >> needed by users? Can it be skipped by setting up "export CYGWIN=something", >> or even by default, with the requirement on the user to induce it if needed? >> There seems to be no switch to the command find that would easily allow >> "but not this subdirectory": if there was, I wouldn't be asking. Quite a >> lot of surfing led me to >> $ find / \( -wholename /proc -o -wholename /dev \) -prune -o -print >> which is really heavyweight syntax for a simple requirement. I am pretty >> certain it leads to the behaviour required "do not traverse" though various >> posters seem to think it just leads to "traverse but do not report" saving >> almost nothing. >> Assuming the syntax is correct, I have not been able to incorporate any >> qualifiers such as -type d or -type f or -type l. Any ideas where to slot >> these so that they work? > Doesn't the -xdev switch help with this? Just keep in mind that -xdev is an extension and different platform may use a different way to indicate that find should stick to the current device. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, April 28, 2017 04:10:57 Sorry for my terrible english...BKCB؛[H\ܝΈY[K؛[\˚[BTNY[K٘\KB[][ێY[K˚[B[XܚXH[ΈY[K[ [XܚXK\[\CBB