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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find files in directory and its subdirectory Post 302161171 by Lakris on Wednesday 23rd of January 2008 09:29:31 PM
Old 01-23-2008
Well, if he hasn't fallen asleep... or cursed his lack of taking hourly backups...

-exec would be better than how I used xargs in my example. I was thinking of the possibility of long "lists" in the result but it wouldn't apply to how I wrote it. But I think the OP wants to treat a list of of items given, so maybe:

Code:
while read filename;do find ~ -type f -name "$filename" -print0 -exec ls {} \; ;done < listofnames.txt
and when You are sure, replace ls with rm...

would be better? Using rm -rf would delete all files (and directories) matching the pattern given in the constant string (DON'T RUN THAT COMMAND!) and I don't think that is what he wanted.

/Lakris
 

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FINDRULE(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					       FINDRULE(1)

NAME

       findrule - command line wrapper to File::Find::Rule

USAGE

	 findrule [path...] [expression]

DESCRIPTION

       "findrule" mostly borrows the interface from GNU find(1) to provide a command-line interface onto the File::Find::Rule heirarchy of
       modules.

       The syntax for expressions is the rule name, preceded by a dash, followed by an optional argument.  If the argument is an opening
       parenthesis it is taken as a list of arguments, terminated by a closing parenthesis.

       Some examples:

	find -file -name ( foo bar )

       files named "foo" or "bar", below the current directory.

	find -file -name foo -bar

       files named "foo", that have pubs (for this is what our ficticious "bar" clause specifies), below the current directory.

	find -file -name ( -bar )

       files named "-bar", below the current directory.  In this case if we'd have omitted the parenthesis it would have parsed as a call to name
       with no arguments, followed by a call to -bar.

   Supported switches
       I'm very slack.	Please consult the File::Find::Rule manpage for now, and prepend - to the commands that you want.

   Extra bonus switches
       findrule automatically loads all of your installed File::Find::Rule::* extension modules, so check the documentation to see what those
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AUTHOR

       Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> from a suggestion by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002 Richard Clamp.  All Rights Reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

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