How do I find (or exclude) all directories and sub-directories matching a certain pattern (in Linux)?

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I'm trying to use the Linux find command to find all directories and sub-directories that do not have .svn (Subversion hidden folders) in their path. I can only get it to exclude the actual .svn directories themselves, but not any of the sub-directories.

Here is what I'm doing right now:

find . -type d \! -iname '*.svn*'

I've also tried:

find . -type d \! iname '.svn' \! iname '.svn/*'

Just an FYI, I'm trying to use the find pattern so I can apply some subversion properties to all directories in my repository excluding the subversion hidden folders and their sub-directories (by applying the exec command to the directories returned from the find command)..

TIA

Dan Carley · Accepted Answer · 2009-06-29T15:32:18.537

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find . -type d -not \( -name .svn -prune \)

edited Jun 29 '09 at 15:32

answered Jun 29 '09 at 15:26

Dan Carley

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I'll go with this one, though they all seemed to work. – Jason Down Jun 29 '09 at 15:44
I've used -prune on find before, but I hadn't seen that \\( ... \\) trick. Thanks. – Amandasaurus Jun 29 '09 at 16:40
Can you tell how this would work in a node.js / express app where I want to exclude node-modules from counting the lines? I tried `find . -name '*.js' -not \( -name 'node_modules' -prune \) | xargs wc -l` without success ... – shredding Oct 15 '12 at 07:26
In response to @shredding regarding Node.js / Express apps and excluding node_modules directories from find's results, this works for me: find . -name '*.test.js' -not \(-wholename '*node_modules*' \) ... given that the tests i want to run are suffixed with ".test.js" – mysterlune Apr 01 '13 at 18:31
Would this work without the `-type d`? I like to search for all file but exclude the ".git" dir recursively – James Mitch Apr 21 '13 at 17:55

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 29 '09 at 15:29

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What about simply

find . -type d |  grep -v '.svn'

answered Jun 29 '09 at 15:29

wazoox

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Loses your ability to use any of the find actions. – David Pashley Jun 29 '09 at 15:45
Yes, but what about a nice little sh loop instead? :) for FILE in `find . -type d | grep -v '.svn'`; do echo whatever; done – wazoox Jun 29 '09 at 19:22
That way you also exclude files with the pattern, not only folders and sub-folders of the offending folder. – Ocean Mar 25 '22 at 21:14

Amandasaurus · Answer 3 · 2009-06-29T16:40:20.193

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What about the -path option to find?

find . -type d ! -path '*.svn*'

edited Jun 29 '09 at 16:40

answered Jun 29 '09 at 15:32

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Missed off a closing quote. There's an outside chance that the wildcards might be too greedy. – Dan Carley Jun 29 '09 at 15:37

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 27 '11 at 20:47

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You could use:

find . -type d -not -wholename '*.svn*'

edited Sep 27 '11 at 20:47

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answered Jul 29 '10 at 18:35

it stripped the * from the front of the answer... should be find . -type d -not -wholename '*/.svn/*' (that's wholename squote asterisk slash dot svn slash asterisk squote) – Jul 29 '10 at 18:38

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 19 '10 at 12:31

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find . -path './tmp' -prune -o .......

answered Aug 19 '10 at 12:31

How do I find (or exclude) all directories and sub-directories matching a certain pattern (in Linux)?

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