How to exclude folders/files in search?

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I have a directory with about 20 folders and many different types of files. I need to search for files and gzip in all the directories except for 1 directory.

How do you exclude a directory?

2

I am not sure whether there is any option in 'find' command to get this done. A work around would be to pipe the output of find with 'grep -v'.

find . -name "*.gzip" | xargs grep -v TEST (where TEST is the directory to be excluded)

3

try the -prune option as in

 
find . -wholename './src/emacs' -prune -o -print