FIND w/ multiple expressions

Shell Programming and Scripting
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For reference i am still a newb at scripting, but i have what i think is a complex issue.

I need to run a FIND on / to identify all files and print them to >> $TEMPFILE
I need to avoid MVFS
I need to avoid /var/tmp/nastmp/

I was trying find / \( -type d -name nastmp -prune \) -a \( -fstype mvfs \) -print

But this is not working at all. I can get them to work separately but i need both conditions to be met.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

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Hi, nitrobass24:

You want to use a boolean OR instead of AND. Use two -o operators between the three expressions (keeping the -print last).

Regards and welcome to the forum,
Alister

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Ahh i see.

Ok so i have

find / \( -type d -name nastmp -prune \) -o \( -fstype mvfs \) -o -print

But I am getting directories printed to the file instead of files only. Is there a way for me to specify that only files get written to log?

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Actually, that will descend into an mvfs filesystem (for some reason, I thought there was another -prune in the mvfs expression). What you want is something like the following (untested):

find / -type d \( -name nastmp -o -fstype mvfs \) -prune -o -type f -print

Regards,
Alister

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Thanks to Allister, this is working great!

Just wanted to post my final code, hopefully it will help someone else in the future.

if [[ $OS = "HP-UX" ]]
then
$FIND / -type d \( -name nastmp -o -name centrify* \) -prune -o -type f -print >> $TEMPFILE
else
$FIND / -type d \( -name nastmp -o -name centrify* -o -fstype mvfs \) -prune -o -type f -print >> $TEMPFILE
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