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Hi,

I'm using the following command to get a list of files on the system.

find /releases -type f -exec ls -l > /home/sebarry/list.txt '{}' \;

however, its searching a directory I don't want it to search so I know I have to use prune but I don't seem to be able to get prune and exec to work in the same command. I need an exec of ls -l because of the files found I want a long listing - their size etc.

The command works when instead of exec-ing I print.

find /releases -type f -path /releases/.snapshot -prune -o -print

but this doesn't

find /releases -type f -path /releases/.snapshot -prune -o -exec ls -l {} \;

Any help most, most appreciated

Sean

Try this:

Code:

find /releases -type f -name /releases/.snapshot -prune -o -exec ls -l {} \;

If no joy, submit the error message you receive.

Regards,
Tayyab

Hi Tayyab,

Thanks for that it almost worked but it wasn't pruning out the directories. I tried variations of it and I could ignore the files and directories under .snapshot but the names of other directories would appear in the output even though I only want files.

I found that this worked:

find /releases -name .snapshot -prune -o -type f -exec ls -l {} \; > /releases/filesonreleases.txt

Cheers,

Sean