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Find files in linux and exclude specific directories

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I have a find looking like this:

rm -f crush-all.js

find . -type f ( -name "*.js" ! -name "*-min*" ! -name "*console*" ) | while read line

do

   cat "$line" >> crush-all.js

   echo >> crush-all.js

done

I'd like to add to exclude a directory called "test" in the find but I can't seem to figure out how to add "-type d" somehow. How'd I go about doing that?

Thanks!

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answered 2 Years ago kilusy · Accepted Answer

You can use the -path option to find and combine it with the -not operator.

find . ! -path "*/test/*" -type f -name "*.js" ! -name "*-min-*" ! -name "*console*"

Please note two things

-path must come as the first argument

the pattern matches the whole filename, so -path test will not match anything, ever

By the way, I'm not sure why you are using parentheses, it doesn't make a difference. It is only used for precedence, for constructs such as ! ( -name '*bla*' -name '*foo*' ) (that is, do not find things that have both bla and foo).

A further refinement: no need to use the bash loop, you can simply do

find . ... -exec cat {} ; -exec echo ;

where ... are the other arguments to find.