How to exclude a directory in find . command

Question

I\'m trying to run a find command for all JavaScript files, but how do I exclude a specific directory?

Here is the find code we\'re using.<

Answer 1

Better use the exec action than the for loop:

find . -path "./dirtoexclude" -prune \
    -o -exec java -jar config/yuicompressor-2.4.2.jar --type js '{}' -o '{}' \;

The exec ... '{}' ... '{}' \; will be executed once for every matching file, replacing the braces '{}' with the current file name.

Notice that the braces are enclosed in single quote marks to protect them from interpretation as shell script punctuation^*.

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Notes

^* From the EXAMPLES section of the find (GNU findutils) 4.4.2 man page