Re: How to exclude directories (and their subdirs) that contain a certain file?

[James Youngman]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if there is an easy way to ignore all directories (and
> their subdirectories) that contain a certain file.
>
> For example, I have directories blah/a/ blah/a/b. I have
> blah/a/.ignore, so blah/a and everything in it are ignored.

You should be able to use -execdir for this by doing something like:

find . \( -type d -execdir test -e ./.ignore \; -prune \)

That probably won't do quite what you had in mind, but you can
experiment a bit.   It's not efficient either, but I don't think there
is any help for that.

James.