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Old 01-24-2006
find issue
I'm trying to use find command to generate a list of a files w/ a specific extension (.axv), but I would also like to exclude/grep out another directory completely from the search (Archive). I have been poking around various sites/forums and man pages and haven't figured this out.

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Old 01-24-2006
I can't tell exactly what you want, but you can negate selections of filenames with the bang ( ! ):
Code:
find /some/path -name \*.axv ! -name  /some/path/Archive\* -print

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Old 01-25-2006
i ended up doing the following and it appeared to work.

find . -name "*.axv" | grep -v "Archive"
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