Re: use find to generate print list

[Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 09:23:12AM +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 07:43:40AM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > In the "find" man page is an example which uses (1) "-prune" to
> > exclude a directory and (2) "! -name '*~'" to exclude both files and
> > directories the name of which end in "~":
> > 
> >   find . -name .snapshot -prune -o \( \! -name '*~' -print0 \)|
> >      cpio -pmd0 /dest-dir
> > 
> > I have tried without success to alter the command so as to prune two
> > directories (".git" and "projectlog")
> 
>   find . -name .git -prune -o -name projectlog -prune -o <your-stuff-here>
> 
> should work.
> 
> (try -print instead of <your-stuff-here> to verify whether you're getting
> what you expect).
> 
find . -name .git -prune \( -name projectlog -o <your-stuff-here> \)

should also work

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez