[SOLVED] Can't exclude folder from search using Shell

[alltiagocom]

@Evan_Mangiamele

traverse all directories even if they are excluded from the results

What does "traverse" mean?

@Evan_Mangiamele

I believe you need to prune the folder from the search instead.

Funny enough, my first test was with prune, but I couldn't make it work:

[SOLVED] "prune" in shell seems to do the opposite

After a few more tests, reading, and banging my head against the wall until I saw "the light", I was able to make it work using -not instead of prune. Then was I was able to get rid of the -o print at the end (if someone can still explain what that is, it's always good to learn something new. find "$KMVAR_Local__mainDir" -type f -mmin -15 -not -path "/Users/dannywyatt/My Files/Tests/Keyboard Maestro Tests/_Template with multiple files and folder/skip/*" It seems that the small, but important i…

I'm a bit confused... doesn't the -o mean "or"?
If so, can you explain what the script is doing?