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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Searching for folders/parent folders not files. Post 302533486 by Aussiemick on Thursday 23rd of June 2011 08:55:17 PM
Old 06-23-2011
Question Searching for folders/parent folders not files.
Hello again,

A little while back I got help with creating a command to search all directories and sub directories for files from daystart of day x.

I'm wondering if there is a command that I've overlooked that may be able to search for / write folder names to an output file which ideally would include folder size.

From the folder I want to record data from, I used
Code:
ls -al

and the far right column output confuses me.
Code:
-rwxr-xr-x

and
Code:
drwxr-xr-x

etc.

Now while the ls command does give me the file size of the current folder, is the find command modifiable to search for the lowest level folder instead of the individual files?

As of right now my find command is
Code:
find  .  -daystart -ctime 0 -type f | xargs ls -sSh > data_DDMMYY

And I'm aware that there is nothing in that above line that would make me think it's searching for files individually, unless that is the actual function of find.

Any and all help as always is greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Michael
 

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rmf

rmf(1mh)																  rmf(1mh)

Name
       rmf - remove folder

Syntax
       rmf [ +folder ] [ -help ] [ -[no]interactive ]

Description
       The  command  removes all of the messages within the current folder, and then removes the folder itself.  If there are any files within the
       folder which are not part of MH, they are not removed, and an error message is displayed.

       You can specify a folder other than the current folder by using the +folder argument.  If you do not specify a folder, and cannot find  the
       current folder, asks you whether you want to delete instead.

       If the current folder is removed, it makes current.

       Note that the command irreversibly deletes messages that do not have other links, so use it with caution.

       If  the folder being removed is a sub-folder, the parent folder becomes the new current folder, and tells you that this has happened.  This
       provides an easy mechanism for selecting a set of messages, operating on the list, then removing the list  and  returning  to  the  current
       folder from which the list was extracted.

       Using to delete a read-only folder deletes the private sequence and current message information from the file, without affecting the folder
       itself.	If you have sub-folders within a folder, you must delete all the sub-folders before you can delete the folder itself.

Options
       -help	 Prints a list of the valid options to this command.

       -interactive
       -nointeractive
		 Asks for confirmation before deleting a folder.  By default, deletes a folder and its messages without asking	for  confirmation.
		 If  you  specify  the	-interactive option, asks if you are sure before deleting the folder.  You are advised to use this option,
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Examples
       This example shows how asks for confirmation when the -interactive option is used:
       % rmf -interactive +test
       Remove folder "test"? y

Profile Components
       Path:   To determine the user's Mail directory

Files
       The user profile.

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