Just grep it out. find . -print | grep -v digitalplatform -v excludes On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm trying to do a find of all files with the phrase 'varnish' in the > name, but want to exclude a user home directory called > /usr/local/digitalplatform. > > Here's what I was able to come up with: > > find / -path '/usr/local/digitalplatform/*' -prune -o -name "*varnish*" > > Which results in this: > > [root at uszmpwsls014lb ~]# find / -path '/usr/local/digitalplatform/*' -prune > -o -name "*varnish*" | grep digitalplatform > /usr/local/digitalplatform/.bash_logout > /usr/local/digitalplatform/varnish-2.1.5.tar.gz > /usr/local/digitalplatform/.viminfo > /usr/local/digitalplatform/.ssh > /usr/local/digitalplatform/varnish-1360.tar.gz > /usr/local/digitalplatform/.emacs > /usr/local/digitalplatform/varnishncsa-init > /usr/local/digitalplatform/varnish-sysconfig-stg > /usr/local/digitalplatform/memcached-1.4.7.tar.gz > /usr/local/digitalplatform/.bash_profile > /usr/local/digitalplatform/.mozilla > /usr/local/digitalplatform/.subversion > /usr/local/digitalplatform/.bashrc > /usr/local/digitalplatform/.zshrc > /usr/local/digitalplatform/varnish-sysconfig > /usr/local/digitalplatform/default.vcl > /usr/local/digitalplatform/1360-apache-stage.tar.gz > /usr/local/digitalplatform/.bash_history > /usr/local/digitalplatform/memcached-1.4.7 > /usr/local/digitalplatform/httpd.conf > /usr/local/digitalplatform/varnish-2.1.5 > /usr/local/digitalplatform/varnish_reload_vcl > /usr/local/digitalplatform/varnish-prod.tar.gz > /usr/local/digitalplatform/varnish-init > /usr/local/digitalplatform/1360-stage-apache.tar.gz > > > I'd like to know what I'm doing wrong, and how I can best achieve the > desired results? > > Thanks > Tim > > > > -- > GPG me!! > > gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ----------------- Hal Wigoda Chicago