[Nottingham] find and recursive home mounts

Eben Till ctrl.alt.nerd at googlemail.com
Mon Dec 5 17:44:29 UTC 2011


Have you tried the -maxdepth flag? My hopes aren't high but it's worth a
shot

~Eben
On Dec 5, 2011 5:35 PM, "Mike Martin" <mike at redtux.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi hoping someone knows a solution this scenario
>
> I have two boxen which have each others home directories mounted on home
> ie:
>
> box1 has home directory of box2 mounted on ~/box2
> box2 has home directory of box1 mounted on ~/box1
>
> both using sshfs, though I would expect same issue with NFA/CIFS
>
> however when I use find eg;
>
> find <dir>  -iname  'VIDEO_TS' -type d
>
> it loops recursively forever, descending into the two links recursively
> dir/DVD/VIDEO_TS
> dir/box2/box1/DVD/VIDEO_TS
> dir/box2/box1/box2/box1/DVD/VIDEO_TS
>
> anyone knows of any way to avoid this?
>
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