[CentOS] delete directories with find and exclude other directories
Gordon Messmer
gordon.messmer at gmail.com
Wed Feb 3 19:29:47 UTC 2016
On 02/03/2016 10:51 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Right, but a) I think I tried using prune 20 years ago... and b) I thought
> the o/p wanted to not deal with any directory whose name was logs. leaving
> off prune would get everything, which is perhaps a bit more useful.
I think you don't understand. I was pointing out that the command you
specified would print the name '.' and that is all. It won't descend
through '.' because you told it to prune all directories not named
"logs". That is, I'm trying to point out that it's your *logic* that's
flawed.
OP was right in his thinking. The correct way to approach the problem
is to ignore (prune) the logs dir, and then to do something with the
remaining directories.
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