using find to exclude dirs, while specifying a give user...

[Charles Curley]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:10:17PM -0700, bruce wrote:
> Hi....
> 

> when i insert the -user "user1".. it blows up....
> 
> ie: find / \(-path "/foo" -o -path "/foo2" \) -prune -o -user "user1" -o
> print....  <<doesn't work!!!
> 

Try this instead:

find / \(-path "/foo" -o -path "/foo2" \) -prune -user "user1"

You don't really need the -print as it is implied if no other output
command is indicate ( -ls, e.g.).

I think it's the -os outside the parentheses that are causing your
problem. You want the default -and. To translate into English:

starting at root, find files in either /foo or /foo2, without
descending into directories, and owned by user1. -prune always returns
true, so it -ands nicely.

Since you are pruning, I would try it like so:

find /foo /foo2 -prune -user "user1"

I think those are equivalent, but would test it to see.


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