Exclude Directories in Bash find Command

Introducing how to exclude folders and directories in the find command of the Linux Bash command line.

For example, if you want to exclude the ./misc folder/directory, use ./misc -prune -o. Here’s an example:

find . -path ./misc -prune -o -name '*.txt' -print

Here is an example with multiple directories:

find . -type d \( -path dir1 -o -path dir2 -o -path dir3 \) -prune -o -print