OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 23:17 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote:
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> > Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:10:28 -0400
> > From: Todd Denniston <Todd.Denniston at ssa.crane.navy.mil>
> > Subject: Re: OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?
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> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote, On 10/29/2008 07:04 PM:
> >> (Does anyone else think .gvfs is a PITA?)
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> This problem got me a while ago, and discussed here.
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> The problem is the mount permissions/capabilities of the mount point. 
> Try re-mounting with 'rw, exec, suid,' and you will probably find that 
> 'find' finds what you would like found (sorry!... Could not resist....).
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> mount with '-defaults' is quite restricted....even root cannot execute 
> commands. You will have to dive into the depths of 'man find' to 
> find....etc. etc.

Nice one. That seems to work.

poc