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I like to write complex find commands with find-cmd which is bundled with emacs (disclaimer: I wrote it): (find-cmd '(prune (name ".svn" ".git" ".CVS"))

I like to write complex find commands with find-cmd which is bundled with emacs (disclaimer: I wrote it): (find-cmd '(prune (name ".svn" ".git" ".CVS")) '(and (or (name "*.pl" "*.pm" "*.t") (mtime "+1")) (fstype "nfs" "ufs")))) becomes: "find '/home/phil/' \\( \\( -name '.svn' -or -name '.git' -or -name '.CVS' \\) -prune -or -true \\) \\( \\( \\( -name '*.pl' -or -name '*.pm' -or -name '*.t' \\) -or -mtime '+1' \\) -and \\( -fstype 'nfs' -or -fstype 'ufs' \\) \\)"

Estragon 15y ago
If you extended this to run in emacs and put the results in a dired buffer on the fly, it'd be awesome!
fexl 15y ago
Now that you mention -prune, I only recently figured out how to use it to exclude a specific path from a search, but my understanding is that of a trained dog.