Re: keep find from trying to spider directories where it has no permission

[jidanni]

>>>>> "JM" == Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
JM> James Youngman wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:41 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
EB> Untested, but:
EB> -type d \! -readable -prune
EB> seems like it should do the trick of telling find to not descend into
EB> unreadable directories.
>>> 
>>> Well, I hope there can be an example added to the find man page.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, in the general case ... there needs to be a way...
>>> 
>>> $ chmod 0 jidanni.org/geo/islands
>>> $ find jidanni.org -type f|wc
>>> find: `jidanni.org/geo/islands': Permission denied
>>>    419     419   17983
>>> $ find jidanni.org ! -readable -prune -type f|wc
>>>      0       0       0
>>> 
>>> Anyway, the challenge is to get the same output as
>>> $ find jidanni.org -type f 2>&-|wc
>>>    419     419   17983
>>> without the 2>&- .
>> 
>> ~/tmp$ find . \! -readable -prune , -type f | wc
>> 2       2      36
>> ~/tmp$ find . -type f | wc
>> find: `./unr': Permission denied
>> 2       2      36

JM> Nice example.  I had to look up the "," operator.
OK, it works. Please add such an example to the man page. Thanks.