On 2006年12月04日, fergus wrote: > PS Is there a switch I can add to "find /" so that /proc is not traversed? find / -path /proc -prune -o -name foo -print If you omit the final -print, "/proc" will be printed along with all occurrences of "foo". See the find(1) man page. Regards, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies garyjohn@spk.agilent.com | Wireless Division | Spokane, Washington, USA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/