OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

[Rick Stevens]

Dave Burns wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Joe Smith <jes at martnet.com> wrote:
>> Can you just skip the .gvfs items specifically, by name, with -prune?
> 
> man page on find -prune was not clear to me, but I tried all combos I
> can think of, nothing works as I'd wish:
> 
> [tburns at cod ~]$ sudo find /users/tburns|wc -l
> find: /users/tburns/.gvfs: Permission denied
> 8620
> [tburns at cod ~]$ sudo find /users/tburns -name .gvfs -prune
> find: /users/tburns/.gvfs: Permission denied
> [tburns at cod ~]$ sudo find /users/tburns -prune -name .gvfs
> [tburns at cod ~]$ sudo find /users/tburns \( -prune -name .gvfs \)
> [tburns at cod ~]$ sudo find /users/tburns \( -name .gvfs -prune \)
> find: /users/tburns/.gvfs: Permission denied
> 
> Note that without the -prune, over 8000 lines get output. No
> combination including -prune ever generated a single line of non-error
> output. Which means I don't understand what -prune is doing, or is
> supposed to be doing. .gvfs is empty, so there should be lots of
> output even if it got pruned.
> 
> And now that I've logged out & back in and .gvfs is mounted again, I
> can test the other suggested workaround involving remount. This also
> does not work for me, though I may be giving the wrong form of mount
> command:
> 
> [tburns at cod ~]$ sudo mount -o remount -o exec -o suid  -o rw /users/tburns/.gvfs
> [tburns at cod ~]$ sudo find /users/tburns/.gvfs
> find: /users/tburns/.gvfs: Permission denied
> 
> One of the side-effects of killing my gvfs process was that my
> ssh-agent died, or at least stopped working. Otherwise I'd seriously
> consider just killing it as the most elegant workaround.
> 
> Thanks for all the input.

-prune won't work, because as soon as find does a stat on the .gvfs
directory, the error gets spit out.  It's just the way gvfs is
implemented.  There's nothing you can do to prevent it.  Sorry!
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