Find files in linux and exclude specific directories

You can use the -path option to find and combine it with the -not operator.

find . ! -path "*/test/*" -type f -name "*.js" ! -name "*-min-*" ! -name "*console*"

Please note two things

• -path must come as the first argument
• the pattern matches the whole filename, so -path test will not match anything, ever

By the way, I'm not sure why you are using parentheses, it doesn't make a difference. It is only used for precedence, for constructs such as ! \( -name '*bla*' -name '*foo*' \) (that is, do not find things that have both bla and foo).

A further refinement: no need to use the bash loop, you can simply do

find . ... -exec cat {} \; -exec echo \;

where ... are the other arguments to find.

find / -path ./test -prune -o ...

Rename ./test to fit the location of you test directory.