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find / grep command without searching mounted shares

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Mar 15, 202660999 views
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Problem

When I used the find command, I almost always need to search the local drives. But, I almost always have super large network shares mounted and these are included in the search. Is there an easy way to exclude those in the find command, grep and other similar commands? Example: find / -name .vimrc

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Fix for: find / grep command without searching mounted shares

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If you're using GNU find (as is used on most Linux systems), you'll want to use : OS X/MacOS provides the pseudo-fstype. This not in GNU find (fstypes recognized by GNU find). Use the option to find on MacOS: If you want to exclude only specific paths, you could use : Update: MacOS Catalina (Jan 2022) I'm two major releases behind the latest MacOS, but some has changed. First, MacOS now supports the option. The man page for says "The same thing as -xdev, for GNU find compatibility." Second, sti…

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