AIX find command

Ok, I have GNU find install on one of the box but I am not getting the exact syntax of excluding the directories like oracle* , nfs filesystems, whats the syntax for that.

Virgo

Just remembered that it's always a good idea to exclude /proc!

df -P | egrep -v "^/proc|Filesystem" | egrep -v "oracle" |awk '{print $NF}' | xargs -I{} find {} ! -fstype nfs -xdev -name "*xxx*"

This will exclude the filesystem which I want, I also want to exclude certain directories which is not to be searched, in that case what would be the syntax.

Thanks
Virgo

when i am executing that command, it is throwing error saying :

xargs: 0402-051 Specify a positive integer after the -l option.

do we need to specify some number with xargs ?

virgo

With GNU find you have the "-path" option, but GNU's "-fstype" doesn't work very well in AIX.
You can try it: "! -fstype nfs" but I didn't have much success with that test.

find / ! -path "*oracle*" ! -path "*nfs_path1*" ! -path "*nfs_path2*" -name "*xxx*"

nfs_path1, nfs_path2 are examples of NFS paths to be excluded.

wmp

That's the uppercase letter "I" as in "IBM", not the lowercase "l"!

Maybe this:

find / \( -name "*oracle*" -prune \) -o \( -fstype "nfs" -prune \) -o -name "*xxx*" -print

wmp