CentOS - Feb 2016 - delete directories with find and exclude other directories

On 02/03/2016 10:11 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> find . -type d ! -name logs -prune
That will prune all of the directories whose name is not "logs", 
starting with "."

So... not terribly useful.

Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 02/03/2016 10:11 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> find . -type d ! -name logs -prune
>
> That will prune all of the directories whose name is not "logs",
> starting with "."
>
> So... not terribly useful.
Right, but a) I think I tried using prune 20 years ago... and b) I thought
the o/p wanted to not deal with any directory whose name was logs. leaving
off prune would get everything, which is perhaps a bit more useful.

     mark

On 02/03/2016 10:51 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Right, but a) I think I tried using prune 20 years ago... and b) I thought
> the o/p wanted to not deal with any directory whose name was logs. leaving
> off prune would get everything, which is perhaps a bit more useful.
I think you don't understand.  I was pointing out that the command you 
specified would print the name '.' and that is all.  It won't
descend
through '.' because you told it to prune all directories not named 
"logs".  That is, I'm trying to point out that it's your
*logic* that's
flawed.

OP was right in his thinking.  The correct way to approach the problem 
is to ignore (prune) the logs dir, and then to do something with the 
remaining directories.