[CentOS] find troubles

[Bowie Bailey]

On 10/28/2014 5:32 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 10/28/2014 04:00 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>>   Sorry not sure what's wrong with this statement. I've tried a few
>> variations of trying to exclude the /var/www directory.
>>
>>
>> [root at 224432-24 apr-1.5.1]# find / -name "*httpd*" -type d \( ! -name 
>> www \)
>> /usr/lib/httpd
>> /usr/lib64/httpd
>> /var/www/vhosts/johnnyenglish/httpdocs
>> /var/www/lpaddevbkp/alchemist/namespace/system-config-httpd
>> /var/www/lpaddevbkp/httpd
>
> Well, no name that matches "*httpd*" will also match "www", so that last
> term will never match.  What you want is the "prune" action:
>
>       find / -name www -prune -o -name "*httpd*"

Or use -path instead of -name.

Your original find statement should work with the -path test.

find / -name "*httpd*" -type d \( ! -path /var/www \)

but combining it with -prune is more efficient since it excludes the 
whole directory tree instead of individually excluding each file.

find / -path /var/www -prune -o -name "*httpd*"

-- 
Bowie