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I'm using tree on a directory which has -- among other things -- some Audacity projects in it. Each Audacity project is some file X.aup, along side a directory X_data, which contains a few sub-directories, and dozens of *.au files.

What I'd like to do is have tree display the X_data folder, so I know it's there, but not descend into it.

I could omit the directory entirely with tree -I '*_data' --matchdirs, or I could omit what appears to be the only child directory of these *_datas: tree -I 'e??' --matchdirs (of course, that's likely to be too broad), but what I'd like to do is tree -I '*_data/*' (which doesn't work).

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Is there any reason you have to use tree? find would probably be a better tool for this:

find audacity_projects -type f -name 'X.aup' -o -type d -name 'X_data'
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  • I do want the structure of a tree output. Also, your solution would only return the pair of things for the audacity project "X". I'm looking for a normal tree output on a given directory, except that all children of any *_data directory are removed. Commented Feb 27, 2022 at 21:05

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