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Find command
Name: newone Date: July 10, 2003 at 11:21:10 Pacific OS: N/A CPU/Ram: N/A
Comment:
Hi: Suppose if I have a find command which looks in the current directory and subdirectories in it as follows,
find ./ -type f -name "file"
is there a way to specify within the find command asking it not to look in a particular subdirectory within the current directory ?
Name: nails Date: July 10, 2003 at 13:51:06 Pacific
Reply:
Hi:
If your version of find supports -prune you can do this:
find . -name yourdirtoskip -prune -o -print
Regards,
Nails
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Response Number 2
Name: newone Date: July 11, 2003 at 06:58:58 Pacific
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In the above command find . -name yourdirtoskip -prune -o -print , what does -o do
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Response Number 3
Name: nails Date: July 11, 2003 at 14:04:52 Pacific
Reply:
Hi:
The -o is the boolean "or" operator. The way it works is that if the directory to skip is found, it's pruned (skipped) and everything after that i.e. the -print option is ignored. The -prune fails on every other obect, and that object prints.
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