On Monday 07 February 2011, Martin McCormick wrote: > Can one use the -prune directive multiple times in a > find command to specify a list of directories not to descend? > > It would be like > > find . -name "*" -prune dir1 -prune dir2 -print > > or whatever you wanted find to do, but that does not work or I > wouldn't be asking. Find appears to get confused and thinks dir1 > is a command.
find . -type d -name dir1 -prune -o -name dir2 -prune -o -name \* ... should list all files except those in dir1 or dir2 -- Mike Clarke _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
