Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!bruce!labtam!foster!cbp From: cbp@foster.avid.OZ (Cameron Paine) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Problem with find(1) Summary: Surely a filter is simpler... Message-ID: <92@foster.avid.OZ> Date: 26 Sep 88 13:32:09 GMT References: <108@forsight.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Organization: Avid Systems Pty Ltd, Australia Lines: 27 In article <108@forsight.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>, roston@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov (Gerry Roston) writes: > I am having a problem with find on various Suns (3/260, 3/60) running > Sun OS (3.5, 4.0). The problem is as follows: Maybe I'm missing something cos I (sob) have never used Suns... > Does anyone have any ideas how I can simply skip news/spool? Have you considered: find / -print | egrep -v '^/usr/spool/news/.*$' Of course, the regexp can be changed to suit the situation. You can even '|' expressions together to exclude more than on tree in a single pass. If this won't do what is wanted, would somebody please enlighten an ignorant soul (one at a time, please :-). cbp ps: this works a treat when cpio-ing from root into a mounted subdirectory. -- cbp@foster.avid.oz - {ACS,CS}net cbp%foster.oz.au@uunet.uu.net - ARPAnet ...!{hplabs,mcvax,nttlab,ukc,uunet}!munnari!foster.oz.au!cbp - UUCP D