Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: 'find' - can i prune on the basis of pathnames? Message-ID: <10780@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 10 May 88 19:10:18 GMT References: <435@stylus.cme-durer.ARPA> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 11 Keywords: find prune path versus filename question Considering your application, you can get there from here by find . -name foo -print | egrep -v '\./name1|\./name1/" > file The problem is that -prune only looks at the current filename (basename). Therefore the name xxx is omitted from the output, but names of the format xxx/anything will not be. I do much the same thing, and drop anything with the string "/tmp/" in the name. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me