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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help - Find command to exclude sub-directories Post 302445207 by aigles on Saturday 14th of August 2010 12:04:15 PM
Old 08-14-2010
Try and adapt the following script (it just print file names) :
Code:
while IFS='|' read subdir dir files filler
do
   echo
   echo "-----------------------------------"
   echo "Entry: <$subdir>|<$dir>|<$files>"
   echo "-----------------------------------"
   echo
   find_names=$(echo "$files" | sed "s/[[:space:]]*//g;s/\([^,]*\)\(,\|\$\)/-name '\1'\2/g;s/,/ -o /g")
   case "$subdir" in
     N|n) dir_name=`basename $dir`
          find_subdir="'(' -type d ! -name '$dir_name' -prune ')' -o" ;;
       *) find_subdir="" ;;
   esac
   eval find "$dir" ${find_subdir} -type f "'(' '('" ${find_names} " ')' -print ')'"
done < pchang.dat

Code:
$ cat pchang.dat
Y|ARCHIVE|*
Y|ARCHIVE|*.txt, *.sh
N|ARCHIVE|*
N|ARCHIVE|*.txt
$ dir -R ARCHIVE
ARCHIVE:
dir1  dir2  grep_with_context.txt  my_test.sh  tree  tree.sed

ARCHIVE/dir1:
readme.txt  subdir_1  subdir_2

ARCHIVE/dir1/subdir_1:
list_1.txt  scan_dir.opt  scan_dir.sh

ARCHIVE/dir1/subdir_2:
compile.sh

ARCHIVE/dir2:
$ sh pchang.sh

-----------------------------------
Entry: <Y>|<ARCHIVE>|<*>
-----------------------------------

ARCHIVE/dir1/readme.txt
ARCHIVE/dir1/subdir_1/list_1.txt
ARCHIVE/dir1/subdir_1/scan_dir.opt
ARCHIVE/dir1/subdir_1/scan_dir.sh
ARCHIVE/dir1/subdir_2/compile.sh
ARCHIVE/grep_with_context.txt
ARCHIVE/my_test.sh
ARCHIVE/tree
ARCHIVE/tree.sed

-----------------------------------
Entry: <Y>|<ARCHIVE>|<*.txt, *.sh>
-----------------------------------

ARCHIVE/dir1/readme.txt
ARCHIVE/dir1/subdir_1/list_1.txt
ARCHIVE/dir1/subdir_1/scan_dir.sh
ARCHIVE/dir1/subdir_2/compile.sh
ARCHIVE/grep_with_context.txt
ARCHIVE/my_test.sh

-----------------------------------
Entry: <N>|<ARCHIVE>|<*>
-----------------------------------

ARCHIVE/grep_with_context.txt
ARCHIVE/my_test.sh
ARCHIVE/tree
ARCHIVE/tree.sed

-----------------------------------
Entry: <N>|<ARCHIVE>|<*.txt>
-----------------------------------

ARCHIVE/grep_with_context.txt
$

For your purpose modify the find command like that :
Code:
eval find "$dir" ${find_subdir} -type f "'(' '('" ${find_names} " ')' -mtime +300 -print ')'" | xargs rm

Jean-Pierre.
Last edited by aigles; 08-15-2010 at 06:27 AM..
 

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