call recursive find except on ./foo/

Hano · 07-30-2002, 11:22 AM

Hi folks!

how do you call recursive find on ./ but dont want to recurse on ./foo/?

Regards,

neo77777 · 07-30-2002, 01:08 PM

from find man page

Quote:

-path pattern
File name matches shell pattern pattern. The
metacharacters do not treat `/' or `.' specially;
so, for example,
find . -path './sr*sc'
will print an entry for a directory called
'./src/misc' (if one exists). To ignore a whole
directory tree, use -prune rather than checking
every file in the tree. For example, to skip the
directory `src/emacs' and all files and directories
under it, and print the names of the other files
found, do something like this:
find . -path './src/emacs' -prune -o
-print