Just specifying -not -path will still descend into the skipped directory, but -not -path will be false whenever find tests each file. prune stops find from descending into a directory. GNU Opinion To ignore a directory and the files under it, use -prune There is clearly some confusion here as to what the preferred syntax for skipping a directory should be. If on the other hand you run find like this cd /tmp find. Note : If you want to exclude /tmp/foo/bar and you run find like this " find /tmp \(." then you must specify -path /tmp/foo/bar. This comes from an actual use case, where I needed to call yui-compressor on some files generated by wintersmith, but leave out other files that need to be sent as-is. The way -prune works is that anything that, once it is reached, the files below that directory are permanently ignored. One might ask if adding -not will not make all other files hidden by -prune reappear, and the answer is no. This is then grouped as a single expression with the escaped parenthesis, and prefixed with -not which will make find skip anything that was matched by that expression. Inside \( and \) is an expression that will match exactly build/external (see important note above), and will, on success, avoid traversing anything below. See note if you'd like a better understanding.
#CRASHPLAN EXCLUDE FOLDER FULL#
If this sentence confuses you just make sure to use full paths through out the whole command like this: find /full/path/ -not \( -path /full/path/exclude/this -prune \). Important Note: the paths you type after -path must exactly match what find would print without the exclusion. I find the following easier to reason about than other proposed solutions: find build -not \( -path build/external -prune \) -name \*.jsįind build -not \( -path build/external -prune \) -not \( -path build/blog -prune \) -name \*.js
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