Question

I am trying to search for *.csv files in file system. There are symbolic links in certain directories that i am looking through, but i want to ignore certain directories since they result in nasty long time consuming cycles.

find -L "location" -name "*.csv >> find_result.txt

How can i tell find to ignore certain directories while keep looking at symbolic links in others.

Answer 1

Use -prune to tell find not to descend into a given directory. For instance:

find -L location -name 'dontLookHere' -prune \
              -o -name 'orThereEither' -prune \
              -o -name '*.csv' -print