Find Command excluding multiple directories and multiple file extentions

Question

I have a folder with lots of files and folder. It contains many multimedia files (jpg, jpeg, mp4, mpeg). The directory also contains lots of sub folders.

I want to do two things :

1. Find the total counts of all files

2. Find the total size used by the files and folder.

I want to exclude files with some particular extensions, like exclude mp4, jpeg files. I also want to exclude a list of folders also. Suppose I have 1000 files and 200 folders. Out of these files, I want to exclude files with some particular extensions and some folders. Like if I have 26 folders named a-z, I want to exclude the folders named h, f, y and so on.

The final output, of the total number of files present and the size they occupy should not contain these files and folders.

I have made an effort towards it and 90% is completed, the command exludes all the files and directories present but it prints the folder name as well, I just want the file name in the output.

find . -type d \( -path "*/Make-Directory-Script-master" -o -path "*/pycharm-community-2020.3" \) -prune  -o -type f \( -name "*.zip"  -o -name "*.pdf" -o -name "*.js" -o -name "*.json" -o -name "*.css" -o -name "*.srt" \) -prune -o  -print

Any help will be appreciated 🙂🙂

Answer 1

Just add a -type f before final -print

command looks like (folded fo readability)

find . -type d \( -path "*/Make-Directory-Script-master" -o -path "*/pycharm-community-2020.3" \) -prune  
    -o -type f \( -name "*.zip"  -o -name "*.pdf" -o -name "*.js" -o -name "*.json" -o -name "*.css" -o -name "*.srt" \) -prune 
    -o -type f -print

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the original command (abridged and line numbered)

#1  find . -type d \( -path ... \) -prune  
#2    -o -type f \( -name ... \) -prune 
#3    -o -print

• in line 1, you select path from a list and -prune (that is stop finding), to find whole line 1 "\(..\) -prune" evaluate to true, so path matching pattern are skipped from output.
• in line 2, using a or conjunction ( -o ) you filtered out a list of extension and skipped them from output also.
• using a final or, in line 3, whithout -type f you print any remaining path, either filename ot directory name.