find command to omit directories

[Ratzie]

I need to modify a script that does a find and pipes it to a file, right now
it omits the "lost + found" directory, but I want to add another directory.
How do I do it?
I want to omit the directory db5 as well.

find ./db* -print |grep -v "lost+found" > /tmp/backup.input

[Pete Randall]

find ./db* -print |grep -v "lost+found" |grep -v db5 > /tmp/backup.inpu


Pete

[Graham Cameron_1]

I don't think find alone can do this, but you can just extend your grep statement:

find ./db* -print |grep -v -e "lost+found" -e "/db5" > /tmp/backup.input

-- Graham

[Umapathy S · Accepted solution]

A slightly modified version
find . -print |egrep -v -e "lost+found|db5" > /tmp/backup.input

HTH,
Umapathy

[Denver Osborn]

and another way...

# vi /tmp/exclude.txt
lost+found
db5

# find ./db* -print |grep -v -f /tmp/exclude.txt >/tmp/backup.input


-Denver

[Peter Nikitka]

Hello,
try

find . \( -name ign1 -prune -o -name ign2 -prune \) -o -print

For a (variable) list of dirs I simply generate the option-arglist for find:
excl='one
two
three'

findopt=$(print "$excl" |
awk 'NR==1 {printf("( -name %s -prune ",$1);next}
{printf("-o -name %s -prune ",$1)}
END {print(")")}')

find . $findopt -o -print