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RE: how to exclude a directory from find?



Carlos Carvalho <carlos@riglos.fisica.ufpr.br> wrote:

>I'm trying to search for unused files, but I want to exclude a
>directory from the search. I tried
>
>cd /scratch && find . -atime +7 -path ./var -prune -o -print
>
>but it doesn't work. Any clues?

Move the -atime condition to just before the -print (then have a think).

Casper Boden-Cummins.



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