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Old 07-25-2007
Computer help with find & grep commands

Folks;
First about find:
when i run this:
find . -name '*log*' -mtime +10 -print | sed 's+^\./++;s+/.*++' | sort -u

i got list of log files but also get a directories (although directory names doesn't have "log" in it).
How can i exclude the directory from the output of this find command?

Now for grep:

How can i grep for some file names & exclude some other files, for example:
Let's say my files named file.now.txt and i want to grep for files named *.txt except for the ones with now.txt
any idea?
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Old 07-25-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by moe2266
Folks;
How can i exclude the directory from the output of this find command?
Code:
find . -type f ...........

Quote:
Originally Posted by moe2266
How can i grep for some file names & exclude some other files, for example:
Let's say my files named file.now.txt and i want to grep for files named *.txt except for the ones with now.txt
any idea?
Code:
ls *.txt | egrep -v "now.txt"

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Old 07-25-2007
Thanks, but adding -type f didn't do it, i still see the directory in the output
 
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