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From: msohnius@novell.co.uk (Martin Sohnius)
Subject: Re: No subject
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Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 14:01:20 GMT
References: <091312Z28101994@anon.penet.fi> <1994Oct31.150849.15232@sq.sq.com>
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Farook Wadia (farook@sq.sq.com) wrote:
: In article <091312Z28101994@anon.penet.fi> an141226@anon.penet.fi writes:
: >
: >I've been trying to do this:
: >
: >find . -name ytalk -print
: >
: >from the root directory to see if anyone has a certain file in a "public"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: >directory on the system (in this example: ytalk). But my output goes
: >haywire:
: >
: >find: cannot read dir ./lost+found: Permission denied
: >find: cannot read dir ./c2/lost+found: Permission denied
: >find: cannot read dir ./export/lost+found: Permission denied
: > etc, etc... FOREVER!
: How about using a combination of -user and -prune ? I guess the above
: directories aren't owned by you nor you have access permission for those
: directories. So you check if the file (directory) under consideration
: is not owned by you (you'll have to negate -user option) then use -prune
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
: (that is bypass that directory).
: I guess this should work. Let us know if it does (or if it doesn't :-) ).
He (she?) clearly states two things: (a) he is trying to do this with . at / and
(b) he is not root - or he wouldn't see the errors in the first place.
Hence he'd see:
$ cd /
$ find . ! -user anon -prune -o -name ytalk -print
$
(unless he owns "/" -- one shudders at the thought.:-)
The correct answer for Bourne-like shells was posted here, as was the
work-around for the C-shell using sh -c.
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