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From: jon@savant.UUCP (Jon Gefaell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: find in ISC 2.02
Keywords: ISC
Message-ID: <871@savant.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 90 18:49:34 GMT
References: <2618@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> <1990Jul31.041206.26868@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <3805@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: jon@savant.UUCP (Jon Gefaell)
Organization: Savant System, Public Interactive Media: Charlottesville, Va.
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In article <3805@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>>... 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.

Woudn't find . -type d -name ! /usr/unwanted do the trick? I have no idea, I'm
just a novice :)
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