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From: leo@atcmp.nl (Leo  Willems)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Way to get find to skip a directory?
Message-ID: <586@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Date: 7 Apr 90 19:34:29 GMT
References: <133@dynasys.UUCP>
Organization: AT Computing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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From article <133@dynasys.UUCP>, by jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher):
> Is there a way to get find to skip a directory when searching?  An example
> would be that I want to search /usr for something but I know it's not going
> to be in /usr/spool/news.  Is there any way I can get it to search /usr
> but skip /usr/spool/news (which can take forever to scan)?  Thanx in advance.
> 

Try:

cd /usr
find `ls | grep -v spool` -print | some_prog

This implies that your version of find(1) must be able to accept more than
one starting point in a tree. Not all find versions do.

In that case try this:

(
cd /usr 
for i in `ls | grep -v spool`
do
	find $i -print
done ) | some_prog


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