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From: res@cbnews.ATT.COM (Robert E. Stampfli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: partial finds
Message-ID: <12847@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 90 19:51:36 GMT
Reply-To: res@cbnews.ATT.COM (Robert E. Stampfli,55216,cb,1C315,6148604268)
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Is there anyway to execute a "find" command while explicitly excluding
the search of certain branches?  For instance, suppose I want to visit
each file in an entire Unix system except for those in /u or /usr/src.  I have
not found any combination of "! -name /u -a ! -name /usr/src" that worked.
Of course, I could pipe the results thru grep, but that would be an expensive
waste of time if /u and /usr/src contained many files and directories.

Anyone have a solution?
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