[CentOS] find with exclude directory

[Cliff Pratt]

Why not copy the directory elsewhere, then delete the rest and move it
back? You'd take a copy of it anyway, if it is important, right?

Cheers,

Cliff


On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 4:44 AM, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks. But what if I want to turn that statement into one that will delete
> everything it finds? I need to preserve the contents of that directory.
>
> As in : find / -path '/usr/local/digitalplatform/*' -prune -o -name
> "*varnish*" -exec rm -rfv {} \;
>
> I'm thinking the grep -v would be a visual thing, but the above statement
> would delete everything including the varnish files in the digitalplatform
> directory.
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Hal Wigoda <hal.wigoda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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