find / grep command without searching mounted shares

Question

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

Answer 1

Use the -fstype local option to find:

find / -fstype local -name .vimrc

If you want to exclude only specific paths, you could use -prune:

find / -name /path/to/ignore -prune -o -name .vimrc

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Update:

The local psuedo-fstype is available in the version of find that comes with OS X, but is not in GNU find (fstypes recognized by GNU find).

If you're using GNU find (as is used on most linux systems), you'll instead want to use -mount:

find / -mount -name .vimrc