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You want to call -prune on /sys//proc instead of descending in them and exclude files with -path. You should prefer ! over -not for portability.

Stéphane Chazelas
– Stéphane Chazelas

2014-03-11 11:53:24 +00:00
Commented Mar 11, 2014 at 11:53
Sir I've updated with -prune, once check if it is OK.

Rahul Patil
– Rahul Patil

2014-03-11 12:34:30 +00:00
Commented Mar 11, 2014 at 12:34
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You also want to exclude /dev certainly.

Simon Richter
– Simon Richter

2014-03-12 10:21:31 +00:00
Commented Mar 12, 2014 at 10:21

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