Help decode this find command? 1

[jouell]

Hi.

Sorry for the basic question to the masters here but
I can't understand what this line is supposed to do, exactly?

find /mountpoint -fstype nfs -prune -o ! -exec ls -lad {} \;

It doesn't bring back any results, just a link:

find /prod -fstype nfs -prune -o ! -exec ls -lad {} \;

result:
"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2005-11-18 13:28 /mountpoint -> /rdisks/bin/prod"

Thanks!
-John

 

[Annihilannic]

I think it's this:

[tt]find /prod find under /prod
-fstype nfs anything with filesystem type nfs
-prune but don't descend into it (to save time)
-o "or"
! not
-exec ls -lad {} \; execute this command[/tt]

Basically it will do an ls -lad of all files and directories that are not NFS mounts. As far as I can tell the ! / "not" is redundant and has no effect on the output there, so I'm not sure why it has been included.

Annihilannic.

 

[jouell]

Thanks!

That helps!

-John

 

[ProbablyDown]

Maybe that means execute the command on everything that's NOT an nfs mount under /proc

 

[Annihilannic]

No, because that's already handled by the -o "or" logic. It only affects the "trueness" or "falseness" of the -exec part, which isn't any use because there are no further expressions following it. At least that's the way I interpret it.

Annihilannic.