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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? -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at https://link.mail2web.com/mail2web -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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