Bug 102821
| Summary: | option "-prune" of "find" command doesn't work as it is described in the manual | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Luke <redhatld> |
| Component: | findutils | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | dluki |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-08-21 15:04:48 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Works for me: $ for a in a b c; do mkdir $a; touch $a/file; done $ mkdir -p src/emacs; touch src/emacs/file $ find . -path './src/emacs' -prune -o -print . ./a ./a/file ./b ./b/file ./c ./c/file ./src |
Description: Option "-prune" of "find" command doesn't work (as it is described in the find manual) In the find manual one can read: ************************************************************************** -path pattern File name matches shell pattern pattern. The metacharacters do not treat '/' or '.' specially; so, for example, find . -path './sr*sc' will print an entry for a directory called './src/misc' (if one exists). To ignore a whole directory tree, use -prune rather than checking every file in the tree. For example, to skip the directory '/src/emacs/' and all files and directories under it, and print the names of the other files found, do something like this: find . -path './src/emacs' -prune -o -print ************************************************************************** I have made the appropriate directory tree ('/src/emacs/' and directories under it) and I have issued the command: find . -path './src/emacs' -prune -o -print This command has printed also the directory '/src/emacs/' and all files and directories under it - it shouldn't do so. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): findutils-4.1.7-9 Luke.