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Old 12-03-2010
Find *.tar files under all subdirectories
Hi there,

I'm new to shell scripting...
I've a situation like to find *.tar files under all subdirectories in "/home/abcd" and i used the below,

Code:
find /opt/lhapp ! -name "temp" | more

the above works fine.. Now don't need search few direcotries like "/home/abcd/aaaa", "/home/abcd/bbbb", "/home/abcd/cccc". So i need to exclude these directories. How??? any ideas???

Thanks in advance!
Vasanth.
Last edited by radoulov; 12-03-2010 at 11:33 AM.. Reason: Code tags, please!
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Old 12-03-2010
Please search the forum, this question has been asked and answered for many times.
# 3  
Old 12-03-2010
I tried with the post using "-path" option but I'm using AIX and it says -path is not supported. Any other way???
# 4  
Old 12-03-2010
Code:
find  /home -type d \( -name aaaa -o -name bbbb -o -name cccc \)  \
  -prune -o -name '*.tar' -print

# 5  
Old 12-03-2010
use the -prune option
you can also have look at -depth option
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Old 12-03-2010
Hi Radoulov,

I tried with below,
Code:
find  /home -type d \( -name aaaa -o -name bbbb -o -name cccc \)  \  -prune -o -name '*.tar' -print

But getting missing conjunction errorSmilie

can you correct me ?
Last edited by radoulov; 12-03-2010 at 12:27 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please!
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Old 12-03-2010
The third backslash in my post is used to escape a newline.
If you don't have embedded newlines, remove it:

Code:
find  /home -type d \( -name aaaa -o -name bbbb -o -name cccc \)  -prune -o -name '*.tar' -print
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