[SOLVED] Excluding Files From find

[whocares357]

I have spent the last hour searching for a solution to this, but I can't get it to work. Here is what I am trying to do:

I have directories for different months in one folder. So for example

../folder/Jan/
../folder/Aug/
etc.

Some of the folders have a dot in front of the month as so:

../folder/.Sep/
../folder/.Oct/
etc.

Each folder has a .csv file representing each day of that month. It looks like this:

../folder/Jan/Jan01.csv
../folder/Jan/Jan02.csv
../folder/.Oct/Oct01.csv
../folder/.Oct/Oct02.csv

I am trying to find all the csv files EXCEPT those in a folder that has a dot.
For example I want all the csv files in ../folder/Jan/ but I want none in ../folder/.Oct/.

I also want to exclude all the files in the /Aug/ folder that represent days 10-31.

Here is what I have so far:

find /some_path/folder/ \( ! -name "Aug[10-31]*.csv" ! -path "/.*/" -name "*.csv" \) | more

This command lists all the .csv files except those in the /Aug/ files. So it just ignores the /Aug/ folder completely but lists every other .csv file.

Thanks for any help.

PS I also tried using prune, but I probably implemented it incorrectly, because it would not work.

[nmset]

I guess the tricky part is filtering out hidden stuff. You may try the following

find /some_path/folder/ \( ! -name "Aug[10-31]*.csv" -name "*.csv" \) | grep -v "^.*/\..*/.*"

and keep us informed. I haven't fully tried it but it seems to be what you wish on some quickly created files. This is just filtering litteral data through grep.

[sileryti]

here's the 'prune' version:

$ find . -name '*.txt' -print
./.1/file.txt
./.2/file.txt
./.3/file.txt
./1/file.txt
./2/file.txt
./3/file.txt
$ find . -path './.*' -prune -o -name '*.txt' -print
./1/file.txt
./2/file.txt
./3/file.txt

[whocares357]

I ended up just using some of the and/or operators to target the few individual ones I didn't need. Thanks for the help.