Tim Dunphy wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm attempting to delete some directories and I want to be able to exclude > a directory called 'logs' from being deleted. > > This is my basic find operation (without the exclusion) > > # find . -type d |tail -10 > ./d20160124-1120-df8mfb/deployments > ./d20160124-1120-df8mfb/releases > ./d20160131-16993-vazqg5 > ./d20160131-16993-vazqg5/metadata > ./d20160131-16993-vazqg5/deployments > ./d20160131-16993-vazqg5/releases > ./logs > ./d20160203-27735-1tqbjh6 > ./d20160125-1120-1yccr9p > ./d20160131-16993-1yf9lnc > > I'm just tailing the output so that you have an idea of what's going on > without taking up the whole page. :) > > If I try to exlclude the logs directory with the prune command I get back > no results. > > root at ops-manager:/tmp/tmp# find . -type d -prune -o -name 'logs' -print > root at ops-manager:/tmp# > > What am I doing wrong? > find . -type d ! -name logs -prune (and -print has been a default for a long time). mark