alias find to always skip a specific absolute path?

Shay · 08-19-2011, 09:48 PM

I've read about purge, but haven't found a way to alias find to always overlook a directory.

I have a directory: /home/Archive
that I would like to ignore, wherever I'm find-ing from.

Any ideas? Besides tar-ing the entire directory?

-Shay

allend · 08-19-2011, 10:31 PM

Something like 'find /home -path "/home/Archive" -prune -o <your find expression>' will ignore the /home/Archive directory.
It is more difficult to suggest an alias as you may want to specify the starting path.