'find' - can i prune on the basis of pathnames?

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

Considering your application, you can get there from here by
  find . -name foo -print | egrep -v '\./name1|\./name1/" > file

The problem is that -prune only looks at the current filename
(basename). Therefore the name xxx is omitted from the output, but names
of the format xxx/anything will not be. I do much the same thing, and
drop anything with the string "/tmp/" in the name.
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