On 2010-10-19 Kevin Buchs <kevin.buchs.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > I often find myself wanting to use find, but avoid searching any > subdirectories called .snapshot, which contain our hourly online backups. > My attempt below seems to fail, for find is trying to access subdirectories > of .snapshot, for which I have no permission and I get the Permission denied > messages (many). I wonder if there is some other trick to avoiding any > traversal of .snapshot directories anywhere on the tree?
> find ! -path '*/\.snapshot/*' -iname windrv6.inf > find: ./.snapshot/hourly.0/All_Contracts_Projects/eCAS/Source: Permission > denied [...] find -name .snapshot -prune -or -print hth, cu andreas
