James Youngman wrote:
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Eddie Kohler wrote:
exclude=$(find . -name .find-ignore -printf '%h\n' | sort -u); find . \! \(
-false $(for e in $exclude ; do printf ' -o -name "%s" ' $e; done) \) ,
-true > /dev/null
=> 3.06s
James Youngman wrote:
exclude=$(find . -name .find-ignore -printf '%h\n' | sort -u)
find . \! \( -false $( for e in $exclude ; do printf ' -o -name "%s" '
$e; done) \)
It's about twice as slow as -contains -- as you might expect, since it
traverses the directory structure twice.
find . -type d
" takes 98.53s.
The patch below adds a "-contains NAME" test to find. The test is true if the
current filename is a directory, and that directory contains a file named
NAME. I wonder if it is worth including, or if anyone has comments. (The
patch doesn't yet update the texinf
