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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How-To Exclude Directory in find command Post 302976375 by Don Cragun on Tuesday 28th of June 2016 08:38:32 PM
Old 06-28-2016
Your request is not clear.

Are you trying to exclude the contents of the specific directory /tmp/logs (which would only be a problem with the script you showed us if you were sitting in / when you invoked your script), or are you trying to exclude the contents of any directory logs that is located in a directory named tmp.

Either way a grep may be the easiest way to solve your problem:
Code:
find . -type f \( ! -name "*.log*"  ! -name "*.jar*" \) | grep -v '^./tmp/logs/'

or:
Code:
find . -type f \( ! -name "*.log*"  ! -name "*.jar*" \) | grep -v '/tmp/logs/'

depending on your answer to the above question.

Note, however that the first one above may exclude other directories from your search if you are not located in / when you invoke find.
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zgrep

ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME

       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Zgrep  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep	options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  then  the
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EXIT CODE

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AUTHOR

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       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

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