right tool for the job

[John Abreau]

On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 09:59, Rob Lembree wrote:

> I need to make a list of files based on a few things.
> The list needs to explicitly exclude some directories,
> but with exceptions.  
> 
> So for example, I want to grab a whole directory hierarchy
> such as 'files', but exclude subdirectory 'exclude', but
> include subdirectory 'exclude/include'
> 
> files
> files/exclude         <---- this directory is excluded
> files/exclude/include <---- except this directory or file
> files/exclude/others...
> 
> The question everyone is Perl, Python, or something else?
> Simple shell scripting for this kind of thing is cumbersome.

It shouldn't be any more cumbersome in the shell than usual. Basically 
the file hierarchy you describe above can be separated into two or more 
hierarchies that you can concatenate: 

    * Everything under "files", excluding "files/exclude"
    plus
    * Everything under "files/exclude/include"

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