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using find that will exclude 2 files

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OieL

OieL

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Sep 6, 2002
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Hi

how can I use find that will search an entire directory but will exempt 2 files .....

core and a.out

thanks
 
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find . ! \( -name core -o -name a.out \) -print
 
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