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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: find in ISC 2.02
Keywords: ISC
Message-ID: <3805@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 2 Aug 90 01:09:54 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>>... 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/\* ...

Nice try, but you don't win the dining room set.  The "-name" predicate
checks *component* names, not *path* names; using "-name", you can tell
"find" to ignore any file whose last component is "unwanted", but you
can't tell it to ignore any file in directory "/usr/unwanted" in that
way.