find error

[Jordon Bedwell]

On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 14:49 +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Loïc Grenié <loic.grenie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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,
> >
> No I want to search for java in entire root but excluding /opt
> 

find / -name java -prune  -o -path '/opt' -print