[CentOS] find with exclude directory

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

> 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 {} \;
>>

try something along the lines of:

find / -regex '.*varnish.*' ! -regex '/usr/local/digitalplatform/.*'