OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?
Gordon Messmer
yinyang at eburg.com
Wed Nov 5 07:50:04 UTC 2008
Rick Stevens wrote:
> Gordon Messmer wrote:
>> You need to tell find what to do with files not named .gvfs:
>>
>> find /users/tburns -name .gvfs -prune -o -print
>
> Will not work. As soon as the non-owner of .gvfs does a stat on the
> directory, the error will be spit out. find must "stat()" any item
> it finds to handle the remainder of the predicate and POP goes the
> error.
If -name is the first predicate, and you prune matches, find will not
need to stat() the directory entry:
[gordon at herald:~/tmp/findtest]$ find . -print
.
./noread
find: `./noread': Permission denied
./read
./read/file
[gordon at herald:~/tmp/findtest]$ find . -name noread -prune -o -print
.
./read
./read/file
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