Problem with find(1)

[Chris Torek]

In article <108 at forsight.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> roston at robotics.jpl.nasa.gov
(Gerry Roston) writes:
>Ideally, I want to do the following:
>    find / -name news/spool -prune -o print ...
>however, this does not work.

`find' only looks at one component of the path name at a time, so
there is no way to exclude a particular sub-path directly.  You could
use

	-exec expr {} : '.*/spool/news$' \;

or some variant.  Alas, this requires one fork()/exec() per file name
traversed.  You could try to reduce the cost by running this only on
`likely' candidates (-type d -name news, for instance).
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