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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find command excluding directories and some files Post 302990988 by jcdole on Saturday 4th of February 2017 11:57:49 AM
Old 02-04-2017
Find command excluding directories and some files
hello.
I try to print a list of files but excluding some directories and some files.
I would like to write a command for :
find "from_dir" "ignore dir1, dir2, ..." "ignore file1, file2,...." "where file are older than 2017-02-03T06:00:00"

Note that "DO_IT" is a local function in the script and is exported like this
Code:
function DO_IT () {
    MY_PATH1="$1"
    if [[  ! -d "$MY_PATH1" ]] ; then
        echo "doing : $MY_PATH1"
    fi
}
export -f DO_IT

The first part run with success :
Code:
find /home/tux_user -type d \( -path /home/tux_user/.mozilla -o -path /home/tux_user/.cache -o -path  /home/tux_user/.local/share/RecentDocuments  -o -path  /home/tux_user/.local/share/kscreen  \) -prune -o -newermt '2017-02-03T06:00:00' -exec bash -c 'DO_IT "$0" '  {} \;

Now I want to exclude some files.
So I have add this part of code inside the find command
Code:
-o \( ! -name ".direct*" ! -name ".Xauthor*"  ! -name ".xsession-erro*"  ! -name "*.xsession-errors-:*"  ! -name ".bash_histor*"   \)

The command is now :
Code:
find /home/tux_user -type d \( -path /home/tux_user/.mozilla -o -path /home/tux_user/.cache -o -path  /home/tux_user/.local/share/RecentDocuments  -o -path  /home/tux_user/.local/share/kscreen  \) -prune -o \( ! -name ".direct*" ! -name ".Xauthor*"  ! -name ".xsession-erro*"  ! -name "*.xsession-errors-:*"  ! -name ".bash_histor*"   \) -o  -newermt '2017-02-03T06:00:00' -exec bash -c 'CHERCHE "$0" '  {} \;

But the specific files are still there (".direct*" ".Xauthor*" ".xsession-erro*" "*.xsession-errors-:*" ".bash_histor*").

Any help is welcome
 

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cachefslog(1M)						  System Administration Commands					    cachefslog(1M)

NAME

       cachefslog - Cache File System logging

SYNOPSIS

       cachefslog [-f logfile | -h]  cachefs_mount_point

DESCRIPTION

       The  cachefslog	command displays where CacheFS statistics are being logged. Optionally, it sets where CacheFS statistics are being logged,
       or it halts logging for a cache specified by cachefs_mount_point. The cachefs_mount_point argument is a mount point of a cache file system.
       All file systems cached under the same cache as cachefs_mount_point will be logged.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported. You must be super-user to use the -f and -h options.

       -f logfile      Specify the log file to be used.

       -h	       Halt logging.

OPERANDS

       cachefs_mount_point     A mount point of a cache file system.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of cachefslog when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Checking the Logging of a directory.

       The example below checks if the directory /home/sam is being logged:

       example% cachefslog /home/sam
       not logged: /home/sam

       Example 2: Changing the logfile.

       The example below changes the logfile of  /home/sam to /var/tmp/samlog:

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ATTRIBUTES

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DIAGNOSTICS

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