[SLL] find insanity

[Russell Evans]

On Thu, 26 May 2005 17:28:39 -0700 (PDT)
"Andrew Sweger" <andrew at sweger.net> wrote:

> How do you tell find to stop digging once it's found something? For
> example, 'go through all the directories in ~/projects and report all
> the directories named ".svn" or "CVS" that are not subdirectories of
> any similarly named directories.' The answer would not appear to be,
> 
>   find ~/projects -name ".svn" -print -prune
> 


Could you try find ~/projects -type d -name ".svn" -print -prune 
I'm not sure if it does what you want but my reading of you post makes
me think it is.

Thank you
Russell