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Old 01-14-2005
Good catch, bhargav! I gotta learn to test stuff like that. This also seems to work on SunOS...

find 123* \( \( -name subdir2 -o -name subdir5 \) -prune \) -o -type f ! -name delet\*
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Old 01-14-2005
Thanks for the very quick reply guys!! This works very good for me.
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