Hi.... trying to search a drive for files for a given user, but i want to exclude certain dirs... i've tried using the following with no luck... find / \(-path "/foo" -o -path "/foo2" \) -prune -o print.... which prints out files excluding the foo1/foo2 trees.... when i insert the -user "user1".. it blows up.... ie: find / \(-path "/foo" -o -path "/foo2" \) -prune -o -user "user1" -o print.... <<doesn't work!!! any solutions would be really helpful... i've been playing with this for a few hours!! thanks