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Jason Down
Asked: 2009-06-30 07:23:38 +0800 CST

How do I find (or exclude) all directories and sub-directories matching a certain pattern (in Linux)?

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I'm trying to use the Linux find command to find all directories and sub-directories that do not have .svn (Subversion hidden folders) in their path. I can only get it to exclude the actual .svn directories themselves, but not any of the sub-directories.

Here is what I'm doing right now:

find . -type d \! -iname '*.svn*'

I've also tried:

find . -type d \! iname '.svn' \! iname '.svn/*'

Just an FYI, I'm trying to use the find pattern so I can apply some subversion properties to all directories in my repository excluding the subversion hidden folders and their sub-directories (by applying the exec command to the directories returned from the find command)..

TIA

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5 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    find . -type d -not \( -name .svn -prune \)
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  2. What about simply

    find . -type d |  grep -v '.svn'
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  3. What about the -path option to find?

    find . -type d ! -path '*.svn*'
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  4. You could use:

    find . -type d -not -wholename '*.svn*'
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  5. find . -path './tmp' -prune -o .......

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