Skipping the /proc filesystem

Shankar Unni shankar@cotagesoft.com
Wed Jul 23 18:57:00 GMT 2003


Randall R Schulz wrote:
> At 18:15 2003-07-22, David A. Cobb wrote:
>>I would wish to tell find not to get involved with the /proc filesystem 
>>at all. Can that easily be done?
> 
> Very easily:
> % find / -path '/proc' -prune -o -print

Would it make sense to identify the inodes under /proc/registry as not
regular files (type f), but, say, devices (or other such special files)?

--
Shankar.



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