2010/10/6 Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com>:
> I used find in following fashion to exclude find to search in directory /opt
>
> find / -name java -prune -o -name /opt -print
What you seem to mean is:
find /opt -name java
(search /opt for files (and directories) named java).
Hope this helps,
Loïc
PS: try man find in a terminal, there are rather good examples