Tim Dunphy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm attempting to delete some directories and I want to be able to exclude
> a directory called 'logs' from being deleted.
>
> This is my basic find operation (without the exclusion)
>
> # find . -type d |tail -10
> ./d20160124-1120-df8mfb/deployments
> ./d20160124-1120-df8mfb/releases
> ./d20160131-16993-vazqg5
> ./d20160131-16993-vazqg5/metadata
> ./d20160131-16993-vazqg5/deployments
> ./d20160131-16993-vazqg5/releases
> ./logs
> ./d20160203-27735-1tqbjh6
> ./d20160125-1120-1yccr9p
> ./d20160131-16993-1yf9lnc
>
> I'm just tailing the output so that you have an idea of what's going on
> without taking up the whole page. :)
>
> If I try to exlclude the logs directory with the prune command I get back
> no results.
>
> root@ops-manager:/tmp/tmp# find . -type d -prune -o -name 'logs' -print
> root@ops-manager:/tmp#
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
find . -type d ! -name logs -prune (and -print has been a default for a
long time).
mark
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