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John Lawrence Aspden
Asked: 2011-03-28 07:49:13 +0800 CST

How to exclude a subtree from the find command

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So I'm trying to find all the mercurial repositories in my home directory

$ find ~ -name ".hg" -or -name ".git"

This works fine, but it finds a lot in the ~/.local/share/Trash subdirectory

How do I make it ignore these? Obviously there's grep -v, but it would be better not to search Trash at all.

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  1. Best Answer

    You can use the -prune option this way:

    find ~ -path '*Trash*' -prune -or -name ".hg" -or -name ".git"
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