On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 07:42:21PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:

...pruned...
 
> 19:20 [59] $ time sh -c 'echo */*/work > /dev/null'
>     0.04s real     0.01s user     0.02s system
> 19:21 [61] $ time find . -name work -print > /dev/null
>    37.76s real     0.37s user     2.17s system
> 19:23 [63] $ time find . \( -name CVS -prune \) -o \( -name work -print \) > /dev/null
>    25.98s real     0.21s user     1.10s system

The one that you want is:

$ time find . -name CVS -prune -o -name work -print -prune

pruning after printing stops the descent into the 'work' directories.

	David

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