What do undocumented -fstype and -prune options to find do?
Dominic Dunlop
domo at tsa.co.uk
Mon Nov 5 23:45:12 AEST 1990
Running strings across the A/UX 2.0 find command (the way one does), I
spot two undocumented options:
-fstype Appears only to traverse mount points if mounted filesystem is
of the named type. What names are acceptable? I don't know.
-prune Apparently taken from a fairly recent draft of the 1003.2 shell
and tools standard: ``Causes find to stop its descent from that
point in the file hierarchy.'' Huh? What use is this, given
that -prune does NOT take an argument naming the directory at
which to stop, or a number giving the number of levels to
descend.
Would anybody care to elucidate?
(I was looking for BSD's -xdev or System V.3's -mount and/or -local. No
luck.)
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Dominic Dunlop
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