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Old 03-01-2018
How to find and get a file in an entire directory with an excluded directory specified?

How to get a file 'zlib.h' in an entire directory with an excluded directory specified lives under that starting directory by using find command, as it failed on:

Code:
$  find . -name 'zlib.h' -a -ipath 'CHROME.TMP' -prune -o -print

it'll just list entirely up
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Old 03-01-2018
-o -print will print all files regardless of the tests executed before.
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Old 03-22-2018
If -prune doesn't work for you, this will:
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Code:
find -name "*.js" -not -path "./directory/*"

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Code:
find . -name '*.js' -and -not -path directory

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This is the format I used to exclude some paths:

Code:
$ find ./ -type f -name "pattern" ! -path "excluded path" ! -path "excluded path"

I used this to find all files not in ".*" paths:

Code:
$ find ./ -type f -name "*" ! -path "./.*" ! -path "./*/.*"


Last edited by jim mcnamara; 03-22-2018 at 09:24 AM..
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