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keep find from trying to spider directories where it has no permission
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jidanni |
Subject: |
keep find from trying to spider directories where it has no permission |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:16:44 +0800 |
It seems there is no way to tell find to look before it leaps,
$ find /tmp -user $LOGNAME -type f -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;
find: /tmp/mc-jidanni3: Permission denied
$ find /tmp -depth -user $LOGNAME -type d -empty -mtime +1 -exec rmdir {} \;
find: /tmp/mc-jidanni3: Permission denied
Is there any gentler way, or must one resort to 2>/dev/null ?
- keep find from trying to spider directories where it has no permission,
jidanni <=