[nycbug-talk] find exclude question

[George Georgalis]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 01:34:37PM -0400, N.J. Thomas wrote:
>* Steve Rieger <steve.rieger at tbwachiat.com> [2005-10-17 13:22:28 -0400]:
>> i would like to run the following find /path/to/dir -atime +14 -- 
>> exclude dir1,dir2 -exec rm -fr {} \ ;
>> 
>> i want to exclude dir1 and dir2 from this find
>
>You want "-prune", as in:
>
>    find /path/to/dir \( -path /path/to/dir/dir1 -o -path /path/to/dir/dir2\) -prune -o -print

Isn't that the oppisit of requested? eg prune returns the trimmings

find . ! \( -path '*/CVS' -prune \) 

// George


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