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05-30-2019

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Try:

Code:

find path \( \
   \( [condition A] \) -prune -o \
   \( [condition B] \) -prune -o \
   \( [condition C] \) -prune \
\) -o -print

Example:

Code:

$ mkdir -p date_chk/{one,two}/{in,out,Documents,Music}
$ touch -t 201901011033 date_chk/{one,two}/{in,out}/oldy
$ touch date_chk/{one,two}/{in,out,Documents,Music}/{okfile,.xsession_notOK,.Xauthor}
$ touch -t 201903011000 foo_deb
$ touch -t 201912011000 foo_end
$ find ./date_chk \( \
     \( -newer foo_end -o ! -newer foo_deb \) -prune -o \
     \( -type d \( -iname Documents -o -iname Music \) \) -prune -o \
     \( -type f \( -name ".xsession*" -o -name ".Xauthor*" \) \) -prune \) -o -print
./date_chk
./date_chk/one
./date_chk/one/in
./date_chk/one/in/okfile
./date_chk/one/out
./date_chk/one/out/okfile
./date_chk/two
./date_chk/two/in
./date_chk/two/in/okfile
./date_chk/two/out
./date_chk/two/out/okfile

Last edited by Chubler_XL; 05-30-2019 at 07:22 PM.. Reason: Missing hyphen on last print parameter - thanks jcdole

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       bup drecurse traverses files in the filesystem in a way similar to find(1).  In most cases, you should use find(1) instead.

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       Note  that filenames are returned in reverse alphabetical order, as in bup-index(1).  This is important because you can't generate the hash
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