How do I use find
to list every single file but exclude a handful of directories from the search?
find / -type f -not -path "./foo*" -not -path "/bar*" -print
I've seen examples on other stackexchanges, eg ./
, but nothing I've tried seems to work.
This kinda works:
find / -type f -not -path "*foo*" -not -path "*bar*" -print
But not really; it also excludes files named "foo" and "bar" from the search results.
Best Answer
find / -type f -not -path "*foo*/*" -not -path "*bar*/*" -print
seems to do the trick.