Telling rm command to exclude a subfolder named 'graphs'

Question

I'm quite ignorant when it comes to linux commands. I found this line in a post-receive setting in my git production hook.

find /home/app/myapp.com/app/tmp/cache -type f -exec rm {} \;

Inside that /app/tmp/cache folder is a bunch of other subfolders as follow:

models/
views/
persistent/
graphs/

Now, I want that command to exclude the graphs/ subfolder, but not sure how to rewrite that command.

Could anyone help?

Answer 1

try

find  /home/app/myapp.com/app/tmp/cache \( -name graphs -prune \) -o -type f -delete

where

• \( -name graphs -prune \) tells find to skip graphs
• -o -type f -delete or else, delete files.