Shell Programming and Scripting

-path pattern
              File name matches shell pattern pattern.  The metacharacters do not treat `/' or `.' specially; so, for example,
                        find . -path "./sr*sc"
              will  print an entry for a directory called `./src/misc' (if one exists).  To ignore a whole directory tree, use -prune 
              rather than checking every file in the tree.  For example, to skip the directory `src/emacs' and all files and directories 
              under it, and print the names of the other files found, do something  like this:
                        find . -path ./src/emacs -prune -o -print
              Note that the pattern match test applies to the whole file name, starting from one of the start points named on the 
              command line.  It would only make sense to use an absolute path name here if the relevant start point is also an 
              absolute path.  This means that this command will never match anything:
                        find bar -path /foo/bar/myfile -print
              The predicate -path is also supported by HP-UX find and will be in a forthcoming version of the POSIX standard.