Search for files in multiple directories - UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Corona688 · #4 (**permalink**) 10-25-2006

find has options relating to this, but they're all depreciated for security reasons. We can do this, sure, but probably not in one command. Here we have 'find' locating directories beginning with 2006, and bash locating files within them beginning with ftp_server. The 2> /dev/null redirects error messages to /dev/null for directories with no ftp_server* file in them.

Code:

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '2006*' |
        while read DIR
        do
                ls ${DIR}/ftp_server*
        done 2> /dev/null