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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting find restricted search to some directories Post 302484768 by radoulov on Monday 3rd of January 2011 06:34:33 AM
Old 01-03-2011
Edit: Removed previously posted code.

You don't see any output from your original command because you're pruning the starting (.) directory.

You can exclude every directory not named 2[0-9][0-9][0-9][0,1][0-9] only for a known number of levels,
because otherwise you will also exclude the parent of the directories you're interested in.

---------- Post updated at 12:34 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:13 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by m69w
[...]
May be i'm being picky but isn't just 1 single call to find necessary ?
You can use something like this, but it will fail if there are white spaces or other special characters in the directory names
or if the list returned exceeds the ARG_MAX limit of your OS.

Code:
find $(find . -name '2[0-9][0-9][0-9][01][0-9]' -type d) -type f

Last edited by radoulov; 01-03-2011 at 07:31 AM..
 

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hal-find-by-property

hal-find(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      hal-find(1M)

NAME

       hal-find, hal-find-by-capability, hal-find-by-property - search HAL global device list

SYNOPSIS

       hal-find-by-capability --capability capability [--help]
	[--verbose] [--version]

       hal-find-by-property  --key key --string value [--help]
	[--verbose] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       The  hal-find  commands, hal-find-by-capability and hal-find-by-property, search the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) device list by speci-
       fied criteria and displays results on the standard output. hal-find-by-capability searches by capability, such as  volume  or  block.  hal-
       find-by-property searches by property, such as block.is_volume or volume.disc.has_audio.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --capability capability	  HAL device capability to search for.

       --help			  Display list of options.

       --key key		  The key to the property that is the basis of the search.

       --string value		  The string value associated with the property that is the basis of the search.

       --verbose		  Verbose mode.

       --version		  Display version and exit.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWhalr			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       hald(1M), attributes(5), hal(5)

SunOS 5.11							    22 Aug 2006 						      hal-find(1M)
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