On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Reza Roboubi <[email protected]> wrote: > find . -wholename './src/emacs/' -prune -o -print (extra slash) > > and that wasn't working. Why is that?
Because path names examined by find never include a trailing slash. Similarly "find -name a/b" will never find anything, since -name only works with files' base names (i.e. with the directory part removed) and so they never include a slash. The manpage should probably point out both facts. James.
