find in ISC 2.02

Norman Kohn nvk at ddsw1.MCS.COM
Tue Jul 31 14:12:06 AEST 1990


In article <2618 at lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> fritzz at lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) writes:
>I use find to backup my system (together with cpio or afio).
>... find spents a very long 
>time in looking through this directory tree.
>Is there a way to prevent that (searching an unwanted directory)

find . ! -name /usr/unwanted/\* ...


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