unix find - negative matching

excluding folders

[jamie]

hi,

i am trying to fine-tune a find command which deletes html files in some folders but not others:

find /www/sites/domain.com/htdocs/ -name '*htm*' -exec rm -f {} \;

the above command deletes all of them, but i want to exclude some folders. can anyone help?

many thanks

[jamie]

it's ok, i have just found a roundabout way using xargs and grep -v

find /www/sites/domain.com/htdocs/ -name '*htm*' ¦ grep -v templates ¦ grep -v javascript ¦ grep -v php ¦ xargs rm -f

:)