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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: partial finds
Message-ID: <1990Jan6.115514.2640@virtech.uucp>
Date: 6 Jan 90 11:55:14 GMT
References: <12847@cbnews.ATT.COM> <104@melpar.UUCP> <F`K$B-@rpi.edu>
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In article <F`K$B-@rpi.edu>, tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
> essentially the same question about the find command.  The manual
> page provides the solution, but find is admittedly a rather cumbersome
> programme to work with at times because of its curious array of arguments.
> 
> The solution lies in the -prune option; both Robert's and Doug's cases
> would use it in the same way:
> 
> find DIR -name EXCLUDEDIR -prune -o WHATEVER

The only problem with this is that the "-prune" option is not an option
on most versions of find.  Stock System V and Stock 4.3BSD do not include
it as an option.


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