[CentOS] find with exclude directory

Hal Wigoda hal.wigoda at gmail.com
Sun May 11 16:39:17 UTC 2014


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
>
>
>
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