find command

[Ridzuan Zakaria]

Hi,

How do I use find command in the following situation:

- I want to search anything under /home/user expect /home/user/guest directory

Thanks.

[Pete Randall]

If you simply don't want to see any output from the /home/user/guest directory you can grep it out:

find /home/user |grep -v '/home/user/guest'


Pete

[Rodney Hills]

find /home/user ! -path "/home/user/guest"

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Sanjay_6 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

you can also use the -prune option with the find command,

find /home/user -type f ! -path "/home/user/guest/*" -prune -print

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

If you want to include all files / directories, you can also use,

find /home/user ! -path "/home/user/guest/*" -print

Hope this helps.

regds

[Ridzuan Zakaria]

I use Sanjay's suggestion.

Thanks

[Ridzuan Zakaria]

I use Sanjay's suggestion