greycat 1210360805 learn see http://wooledge.org/mywiki/UsingFind or example: find . -name .svn -prune -o \( ... what you really wanted ... \) -print lhunath 1291375139 forget lhunath 1291375201 learn Stop find from descending a tree: find . ! '(' -name do-not-descend -prune ')' -print ## See http://mywiki.wooledge.org/UsingFind