Hello!

I am currently have this in my crontab file to delete files that are older than 90 days:

find /opt/files/users/stopper/ -type f -mtime +90 -delete

I'd like to omit the logs directory, and all child directories of the logs directory which exists at this path: /opt/files/users/stopper/logs

I've looked through the manual for the find command but I'm not sure if there is anything I can use in order to omit the path and all its child folders from the deletion which is occurring. Any assistance or suggestions are appreciated, thank-you.

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Thank you for the quick response. What does -wholename do in this case, googling around wasn't helping. Also, what does the -o do? On the example page the KinnowGrower showed, it only was used when there was two paths to be excluded.

wholename pattern
File name matches shell pattern pattern. The metacharacters do
not treat `/' or `.' specially; so, for example,
find . -wholename './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 . -wholename './src/emacs' -prune -o -print


Thank-you!

I just used wholename for pathes, since name only matches the base name. -o is the or operator. It might not be necessary in this case.

Again, thanks!