i am trying to write ideally a one liner that will find all of the folders inside of a volume that don't contain a subfolder starting with the letter e and at the same time do contain a subfolder named 'images' that are not empty.

so far i have this
find /Volumes/image/ \! \( -name "e*" -and /images -empty

up to this point

find /Volumes/image/ \! \( -name "e*"

minus the ( of course i am pretty sure that it works to find directories inside of /Volumes/image/ that don't have subdirectories starting with e.


Again the desired output is.
Volumes/image/*/(no dirs starting with e) and at the same time /Volumes/image/*/images/(anything just not empty). Thats what i am trying to get.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Movomito

Tested with GNU find:

find /Volumes/image/ -type d \! \( -name "image*" -empty \) \! -name "e*"

this works great. Thank you. However, my output is a list of all of the directories and sub directories. Ideally i would get output that is a list of directories where this is true

so rather than this:

/Volumes/image/W00EGS1012593
/Volumes/image/W00EGS1012593/images
/Volumes/image/W00EGS1012593/images/W00EGS1012593-I00EGS1017114
/Volumes/image/W00EGS1016181
/Volumes/image/W00EGS1016181/images
/Volumes/image/W00EGS1016181/images/W00EGS1016181-I1PD10388
/Volumes/image/W00EGS1016199
/Volumes/image/W00EGS1016199/images
/Volumes/image/W00EGS1016199/images/W00EGS1016199-I00EGS1016201

i would just get:

/Volumes/image/W00EGS1012593
/Volumes/image/W00EGS1016181
/Volumes/image/W00EGS1016199

or even better:

/W00EGS1012593
/W00EGS1016181
/W00EGS1016199

thank you. Any help is appreciated

If your find supports maxdepth then use the following code. Run it from current dir ( ie. /Volumes/image/ ) :

the -maxdepth took care of cleaning up my output.

However, now i have noticed that the \! -name "e*" doesn't seem to be working.

While it is not outputting directories that start with e it is outputting directories that have subdirectories in them that start with e.

For example

./W00EGS1016928
./W00EGS1016928/images
./W00EGS1016928/images/W00EGS1016928-I01JW231

and ./W00EGS1016928/ebook/ does exist

almost there though

Thanks

Using maxdepth find will not search in the subdirectories anymore, so back to the initial working code, by modifying it a little, you'd get the output described in your second post:

Running it again from the current directory:

Hope this helps.