linux find files older than 365 days exclude multiple paths

Navigate to target folder, search sub folders and sort files details older than 365 days with folder exclusion config below:

find . -type d \( -path "./Programs/jdk1.7.xxx" -o -path "./Programs/apache-tomcat-7.0.xxx" -o -path "./Programs/mysql-xxx" \) -prune -o -mtime +365 | sort

Similar as above, but ls -lrth

find . -type d \( -path "./Programs/jdk1.7.xxx" -o -path "./Programs/apache-tomcat-7.0.xxx" -o -path "./Programs/mysql-xxx" \) -prune -o -mtime +365 -exec ls -lrth {} \;

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Reference URL: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4210042/how-to-exclude-a-directory-in-find-command

Use the prune switch, for example if you want to exclude the misc directory just add a -path ./misc -prune -o to your find command:

find . -path ./misc -prune -o -name '*.txt' -print

Here is an example with multiple directories:

find . -type d \( -path dir1 -o -path dir2 -o -path dir3 \) -prune -o -print

Here we exclude dir1, dir2 and dir3, since in find expressions it is an action, that acts on the criteria -path dir1 -o -path dir2 -o -path dir3 (if dir1 or dir2 or dir3), ANDed with type -d. Further action is -o print, just print.