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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Exclude directories in FIND command Post 302984131 by Don Cragun on Thursday 20th of October 2016 09:14:54 PM
Old 10-20-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chubler_XL
How about this:

Code:
find . \
   -type d \( -name "logs*"  -o -name "tmp*"   \) -prune -o \
   -type f \( -name "*.tar*" -o -name "*.bkp*" \) -prune -o \
   -type f -exec /usr/xpg4/bin/grep -i "user_1" /dev/null {} + >result.out

eg:

Code:
$ find . -type f -print
./basic.log
./file1.bkp
./logs/file1
./logs.test
./logs1/file2
./src/code.c
./tar2.tar
./tmp/test.txt
./tmp1/testing
./try.sh

$ find . \
   -type d \( -name "logs*"  -o -name "tmp*"   \) -prune -o \
   -type f \( -name "*.tar*" -o -name "*.bkp*" \) -prune -o \
   -type f -print
./basic.log
./logs.test
./src/code.c
./try.sh

The -prune primary in find is ignored when the current file is not a directory. So you can delete the text shown in red above and get the same results.
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