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Xyz
Xyz

Reputation: 167

Using prune in find when searching for a specific name

All the examples I read using find and -prune never seem to have the find looking for a specific filename. Let' say I want to do a search from root looking for any files on the system named "abc", I'd usually use:

find / -name "abc"

But now I want the same search, but I don't want to include any searches through /mnt or /tmp. How can I use prune in this situation?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 95

Answers (1)

Philippe
Philippe

Reputation: 26800

You can use :

find / \( -path /mnt -o -path /tmp \) -prune -o -name "abc"

Upvotes: 1

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