Searching for file and stopping at first item found

davchris · #1 (**permalink**) 07-02-2009

Hello,

I try to write a shell script that would list all files on a directory and stop when it finds the first item specified on a find or ls command.
How can I tell to the find or ls command to stop when it finds the first ".doc" file for example ?

Thank you

rakeshawasthi · #2 (**permalink**) 07-02-2009

Try...

Code:

for i in *
do
   if [[ `basename $i .doc` != "$i" ]]; then
      exit
   fi
   echo $i
done

pludi · #3 (**permalink**) 07-02-2009

Pipe it into head, eg

Code:

find /path -type f -name '*.doc' -print | head -1

scottn · #4 (**permalink**) 07-02-2009

Code:

find . -type f -name *.doc 2>/dev/null | sed "q"

davchris · #5 (**permalink**) 07-02-2009

thank you rakeshawasthi it works
but how can I make the script goes through subdirectories ?
I've tried this, but all the files comes into the "i" variable, so the script doesnt work :
IFS=
for i in $(find . -type f | awk -F"/" ' { print $2 } ' )
do
if [[ `basename "$i" .chm` != "$i" ]]; then
exit
fi
echo $i
done

rakeshawasthi · #6 (**permalink**) 07-02-2009

Why you are using

Quote:

$(find . -type f | awk -F"/" ' { print $2 } ' )

Isnt this enough...

Code:

find . -type f -print
i.e.
for i in `find . -type f -print`

ghostdog74 · #7 (**permalink**) 07-02-2009

Code:

ls -lRa /path |awk '/\.doc$/{print;exit}'

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