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Old 02-19-2012
Find: ignore directory completely

Hello,

I know find can be prevented from recursing into directories with something like the following...

Code:
find . -name .svn -prune -a type d

But how can I completely prevent directories of a certain name (.svn) from being displayed at all, the top level and the children?

I really appreciate any help you can give me.

Thanks.

Last edited by methyl; 02-19-2012 at 05:03 PM.. Reason: please use code tags
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Old 02-19-2012
Code:
find . -type d ! -name '.svn' -print

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Old 02-19-2012
Ah, thank you!
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