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I have to come up with a find command to find certain files in a directory. The directory has sub directories and sym-links to other directories. If I use the following find command it ignores the sym-links: 

find $dir/ -name '*.out' -size 0 -mtime +0

The following follows the sym-links: 

find -L $dir/ -name '*.out' -size 0 -mtime +0 2

I am trying to figure out a way to use -prune and additional -name flags to omit certain elements from the directory. I need something that works on both Linux and AIX.

Some commands I've tried:

find -L . ( -name dest ) -prune -o -name "*.out"
find -L $dir -name *.out ( ! -name "dest" -prune )
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  • Can you post what you tried with -prune? Commented Sep 14, 2017 at 14:04
  • Did you read documentation of find ? BTW you could compile and use GNU findutils on your AIX system Commented Sep 14, 2017 at 14:04
  • @h3rrmiller Some commands that i tried without success <br/> find -L . ( -name dest ) -prune -o -name "*.out" <br/> find -L $dir -name *.out ( ! -name "dest" -prune ) Commented Sep 14, 2017 at 14:35

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Without an "action" (like -print), find will print out each file it visits. This behavior is why find -L . ( -name dest ) -prune -o -name "*.out" still shows the files you are pruning. find has to visit the file before it can evaluate the conditions you provided.

Adding the -print action to the end of your find command should do the trick.

find -L . -name dest -prune -o -name "*.out" -print
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