Exclude a sub-directory using find

Question

I have directory structure like this

data
|___
   |
   abc
    |____incoming
   def
    |____incoming
    |____processed
   123
    |___incoming
   456
    |___i         


        

Answer 1

-name only matches the filename, not the whole path. You want to use -path instead, for the parts in which you are pruning the directories like def/incoming.