find question

Pete Holsberg pjh42 at pobox.com
Sat Jul 14 17:25:45 UTC 2007


H.S. keyed the following on 7/14/2007 12:41 PM:
> $> find / -path './proc' -prune -o -name .profile 2>/dev/null
>   

Interesting! I first tried it w/o the "./" and it listed /proc.

I don't understand what the "./" does.

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Pete Holsberg
Columbus, NJ

A dyslexic man walks into a bra.




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