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I'm trying to run a find command for all JavaScript files, but how do I exclude a specific directory?
Here is the find code we're using.
for file in $(find . -name '*.js') do java -jar config/yuicompressor-2.4.2.jar --type js $file -o $file done 
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We can exclude directories by using the help of “path“, “prune“, “o” and “print” switches with find command. The directory “bit” will be excluded from the find search!
Exclude Files and Directories from a List. When you need to exclude a large number of different files and directories, you can use the rsync --exclude-from flag. To do so, create a text file with the name of the files and directories you want to exclude. Then, pass the name of the file to the --exlude-from option.
Prune usage:$ 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.
If -prune doesn't work for you, this will:
find -name "*.js" -not -path "./directory/*" Caveat: requires traversing all of the unwanted directories.
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