Mdfind exclude a folder

Question

-onlyin

option in mdfind searches a particular folder.
How do I exclude certain folders in combination with -onlyin?

Thus if I want to search the entire folder SearchHere containing folders A , B and C and exclude from searching within C.

Answer 1

You could use something like:

mdfind -onlyin SearchHere 'kMDItemFSName==ItemToSearch' | grep -v '/C/'

mdfind seems to ignore kMDItemPath, so using grep -v should solve the issue.