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Re: Excluding certain directories

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From: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Excluding certain directories
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:05:36 -0400
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zzapper sent me the following 0.2K:

> Hi
> I want to exclude subdirectories dev*
> ls {^dev*,}/index.php(.N)
> 
> 
> The above appears to work OK, any alternatives? and how would I make it 
> multi-depth

Here's one approach:

   ls -d **/*~**/dev/*~**/dev

It's not entirely correct, since you can have a plain file named dev
that's ignored by the last clause.  It'd be nice to be able to embed
glob qualifiers (/) into the negated pattern clauses, but it seems
that's not supported.

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Chris Johnson
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