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Excluding a list of directories from Find

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Mar 15, 20262380 views
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Problem

I am using rsyncrypto to backup a few of my user directories. I want to exclude some subdirectories from the encryption. I read that the best way to do this is to pipe the output of find to rsyncrypto. Here's a find command that excludes directories named tmp: I have six or seven such directories t…

Error Output

find ~/Documents -type d -not \( -name tmp -prune \)

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