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From: nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: find in ISC 2.02
Keywords: ISC
Message-ID: <1990Jul31.041206.26868@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 31 Jul 90 04:12:06 GMT
References: <2618@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn)
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL
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In article <2618@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) writes:
>I use find to backup my system (together with cpio or afio).
>... find spents a very long 
>time in looking through this directory tree.
>Is there a way to prevent that (searching an unwanted directory)

find . ! -name /usr/unwanted/\* ...


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