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I want to exclude all directories from the find command target. I can use this:
find / -not -path /my/path -name name
But this still keep looking at all subdirectories of /my/path. Is there a way to exclude the directory and all its subdirectories from find?
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To exclude multiple directories, OR them between parentheses. And, to exclude directories with a specific name at any level, use the -name primary instead of -path .
We can also use cp command to copy folders from one location to another excluding specific directories. Go your source directory i.e ostechnix in our case. The above command will copy all contents of the current folder ostechnix except the sub-directory dir2 and saves them to /home/sk/backup/ directory.
Go to Start > Settings > Update & Security > Windows Security > Virus & threat protection. Under Virus & threat protection settings, select Manage settings, and then under Exclusions, select Add or remove exclusions. Select Add an exclusion, and then select from files, folders, file types, or process.
Prune usage:$ find . -prune . The find command works like this: It starts finding files from the path provided in the command which in this case is the current directory(.). From here, it traverses through all the files in the entire tree and prints those files matching the criteria specified.
with -prune
find . -name directory_to_exclude -prune -o ...
to exclude many directories
find . \( -name dir1_to_exclude -o -name dir2 ... \) -prune -o ...
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