Find and excluding directory
 

Hi

I have to use find to change the perms of a directory and files within
that directory recursively but i need to exclude a directory within the
top level directory, as its a netapp and so contains a read only
.snapshot dir.

I have tried...

# find /var/data/foo -path './.snapshot' -prune -o -exec chown
usera:groupb {} ;

but

chown: changing ownership of `/var/data/foo/.snapshot': Read-only file
system
chown: changing ownership of `/var/data/foo/.snapshot/hourly.0':
Read-only file system
chown: changing ownership of
`/var/data/foo/.snapshot/hourly.0/filename': Read-only file system

any clue ?

thanks
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Find and excluding directory
 

Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have to use find to change the perms of a directory and files within
> that directory recursively but i need to exclude a directory within the
> top level directory, as its a netapp and so contains a read only
> .snapshot dir.
>
> I have tried...
>
> # find /var/data/foo -path './.snapshot' -prune -o -exec chown
> usera:groupb {} ;
>
> but
>
> chown: changing ownership of `/var/data/foo/.snapshot': Read-only file
> system
> chown: changing ownership of `/var/data/foo/.snapshot/hourly.0':
> Read-only file system
> chown: changing ownership of
> `/var/data/foo/.snapshot/hourly.0/filename': Read-only file system

Your "-path" argument is wrong. Try this:

find /var/data/foo -path '/var/data/foo/.snapshot' -prune -o -exec chown
usera:groupb {} +

You need the whole path, and there is no need to escape the '.' character.
I've also used "+" as the terminator. That's just an efficiency issue. It
makes 'find' build command lines with as many matches as will fit rather
than invoking 'chown' separately for each one.

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> Your "-path" argument is wrong. Try this:
>
> find /var/data/foo -path '/var/data/foo/.snapshot' -prune -o -exec chown
> usera:groupb {} +
>
> You need the whole path, and there is no need to escape the '.' character.
> I've also used "+" as the terminator. That's just an efficiency issue. It
> makes 'find' build command lines with as many matches as will fit rather
> than invoking 'chown' separately for each one.
>
>

Hi Robert

many thanks - that resolved ths issue for me

tom


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