using find to exclude dirs, while specifying a give user...

[bruce]

Hi....

trying to search a drive for files for a given user, but i want to exclude
certain dirs...

i've tried using the following with no luck...

find / (-path "/foo" -o -path "/foo2" ) -prune -o print.... which prints
out files excluding the foo1/foo2 trees....

when i insert the -user "user1".. it blows up....

ie: find / (-path "/foo" -o -path "/foo2" ) -prune -o -user "user1" -o
print....  <<doesn't work!!!

any solutions would be really helpful... i've been playing with this for a
few hours!!

thanks

[Charles Curley]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:10:17PM -0700, bruce wrote:
> Hi....
> when i insert the -user "user1".. it blows up....
>
> ie: find / (-path "/foo" -o -path "/foo2" ) -prune -o -user "user1" -o
> print....  <<doesn't work!!!

Try this instead:

find / (-path "/foo" -o -path "/foo2" ) -prune -user "user1"

You don't really need the -print as it is implied if no other output
command is indicate ( -ls, e.g.).

I think it's the -os outside the parentheses that are causing your
problem. You want the default -and. To translate into English:

starting at root, find files in either /foo or /foo2, without
descending into directories, and owned by user1. -prune always returns
true, so it -ands nicely.

Since you are pruning, I would try it like so:

find /foo /foo2 -prune -user "user1"

I think those are equivalent, but would test it to see.