Mike Clarke writes:
find . -type d -name dir1 -prune -o -name dir2 -prune -o -name \*
... should list all files except those in dir1 or dir2
It certainly does. Thank you. I was off on enough wrong syntax
tracks that it probably would have taken a very long time to
figure it out. I found tons
Can one use the -prune directive multiple times in a
find command to specify a list of directories not to descend?
It would be like
find . -name * -prune dir1 -prune dir2 -print
or whatever you wanted find to do, but that does not work or I
wouldn't be asking. Find appears to
On Monday 07 February 2011, Martin McCormick wrote:
Can one use the -prune directive multiple times in a
find command to specify a list of directories not to descend?
It would be like
find . -name * -prune dir1 -prune dir2 -print
or whatever you wanted find to do, but that