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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find files in directory and its subdirectory Post 302161103 by Lakris on Wednesday 23rd of January 2008 07:45:36 PM
Old 01-23-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by jyotib
How do find file in directory or subdirectory ????
Maybe You could try something like this. I am sure there are more efficient ways to do it, especially when there are lots of files and deep structures. But it can give You an idea of how it can be done. This works in Bash. Probably in most other shells as well.

Let's say You have a file with a list of names:
Code:
lakris@Lakrix:~/Projects/scripts$ cat listofnames.txt
resumed-transactions.txt
session.properties

With the command line below You let the operation "while read" (the < listofnames.txt at the end means that that's where the input comes from) take each line, and use it as an argument to the program find.

When the program find finds it in or below ~(the ~ means Your home directory, replace it with something else, /share/pics or whatever), You use that result and pass it as an argument to the program xargs, which then performs an operation on it.

In this case I use ls (list or dir) since it is non-destructive, just to try it out and it will give me a confirmation of which files will be affected. I can replace it with rm when I think I am certain that it will work.

So:

Code:
lakris@Lakrix:~/Projects/scripts$ while read filename;do find ~ -type f 
-name "$filename" -print0 |xargs ls;done < listofnames.txt
/home/lakris/bin/resumed-transactions.txt
/home/lakris/.anjuta/session.properties
lakris@Lakrix:~/Projects/scripts$

Could that work for You?

/Lakris
 

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