WiredRevolution.com » xdev http://www.wiredrevolution.com A Bit of Linux Wisdom Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:45:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Skip network filesystems when searching with find http://www.wiredrevolution.com/system-administration/skip-network-filesystems-when-searching-with-find?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=skip-network-filesystems-when-searching-with-find http://www.wiredrevolution.com/system-administration/skip-network-filesystems-when-searching-with-find#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:45:06 +0000 Ryan http://www.wiredrevolution.com/?p=932
When you run the find command on the root directory of a system you may want to exclude all network filesystems and confine your search to only your local machine. The benefits of this are obvious as it will save you a great amount of time especially if the mounted filesystem is very large. Luckily [...] Related posts
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When you run the find command on the root directory of a system you may want to exclude all network filesystems and confine your search to only your local machine. The benefits of this are obvious as it will save you a great amount of time especially if the mounted filesystem is very large.

Luckily the find command provides this ability with the ‘-xdev‘ or ‘-mount‘ options.

For example:

$ find / -xdev -name myfile.txt

This command will recursively search for myfile.txt starting in your root directory and skip all externally mounted filesystems.

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