I'm using the find command on a Mac to search for a folder called test1. Now test1 folder could be present in the .Trash folder also. How do I exclude the .Trash folder from getting reported in search results or basically any folder I wish to exclude?
$ find $HOME -name test1 -type d
/Users/theuser/.Trash/test1
/Users/theuser/test1
/Users/theuser/Downloads/test1
I want the result to be just
/Users/theuser/test1
/Users/theuser/Downloads/test1
I used grep:
find $HOME -name test1 -type d | grep -v '.Trash'
to filter out the .Trash result, but I'm interested in knowing if using find alone achieves the same results.
Answer
find $HOME -path $HOME/.Trash -prune -o -name test1 -type d -print
By explicitly using -print you avoid the spurious printing of .Trash.
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