12-16-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by
methyl
The solution is in post #2.
You must specify a start directory for "find" .
I thought so as well, but the linux version of
find has path as an optional argument. A bit of a surprise to me.
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
By default FIND command searches for matching files in all the subdirectories within the specified path.
Is there a way to restrict FIND command's search path to only the specified directory and NOT TO scan its subdirectories.
Any help would be more than appreciated.
Thanks and Regards (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: super_duper_guy
2 Replies
2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I need to know whether nyfile/mypath exists on the file system in the root directory.
How to do this (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ramky79
1 Replies
3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a file abcd.txt which has contents in the form of full path file names i.e.
$home> vi abcd.txt
/a/b/c/r1.txt
/q/w/e/r2.txt
/z/x/c/r3.txt
Now I want to retrieve only the directory path name for each row
i.e
/a/b/c/
/q/w/e/
How to get the same through shell script?... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: royzlife
7 Replies
4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hello Folks,
A wrapper takes an argument of file or directory name.
I want to allow paths that reside within the current directory only.
Can simply discard the paths like "/A" & "../" as they go outside the current by looking at the path beginning.
How to validate this one:
A/../../../b... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: vibhor_agarwali
4 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
If I enter (simplified):
find . -printf "%p\n"
then all files in the output are prepended by a "." like
./local/share/test23.log
How can achieve that
a.) the leading "./" is omitted
and/or
b.) the full path to the current directory is inserted (enclosed by brackets and a blank)... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: pstein
1 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Does anyone know of a way to zip the resulting file from a find command?
My approach below finds the file and zips the entire directory path, which is not what I need.
After scanning the web, it seems to be much easier to perform gzip, but unfortunately the approach must use zip.
find `$DIR`... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: koeji
5 Replies
7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a script like this running under OS X 10.8. The problem arises when the find command encounters a space in the path name. I need the "dir" variable as I'll be extending the script to more general use.
#!/bin/bash
CFS=$IFS
IFS=$(echo)
set dir = "/Users/apta/Library/Mail\... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: apta
3 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
i want to script on sh to check from a path if the directory exist and isn't empty.
I explain:
path is : /aaa/bbb/ccc/ccc_name/ddd/
Where the cccc_name is in a list, so i think it's $1
My command
find -name /aaa/bbb/ccc/$1/ddd/ didn't work because my $1 is the same and not... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: steiner
5 Replies
9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hello,
I am creating a file with all the source folders included in my git branch, when i grep for the used source, i found source included as relative path instead of absolute path, how can convert relative path to absolute path without changing directory to that folder and using readlink -f ? ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sekhar419
4 Replies
10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
What is the difference ../directory path and ./directory path in ksh? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: TestKing
1 Replies
LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
whereis
WHEREIS(1) User Commands WHEREIS(1)
NAME
whereis - locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command
SYNOPSIS
whereis [-bmsu] [-BMS directory... -f] filename...
DESCRIPTION
whereis locates source/binary and manuals sections for specified files. The supplied names are first stripped of leading pathname compo-
nents and any (single) trailing extension of the form .ext, for example, .c. Prefixes of s. resulting from use of source code control are
also dealt with. whereis then attempts to locate the desired program in a list of standard Linux places.
OPTIONS
-b Search only for binaries.
-m Search only for manual sections.
-s Search only for sources.
-u Search for unusual entries. A file is said to be unusual if it does not have one entry of each requested type. Thus
`whereis -m -u *' asks for those files in the current directory which have no documentation.
-B Change or otherwise limit the places where whereis searches for binaries.
-M Change or otherwise limit the places where whereis searches for manual sections.
-S Change or otherwise limit the places where whereis searches for sources.
-f Terminate the last directory list and signals the start of file names, and must be used when any of the -B, -M, or -S options are
used.
EXAMPLE
Find all files in /usr/bin which are not documented in /usr/man/man1 with source in /usr/src:
example% cd /usr/bin
example% whereis -u -M /usr/man/man1 -S /usr/src -f *
FILES
/{bin,sbin,etc}
/usr/{lib,bin,old,new,local,games,include,etc,src,man,sbin,
X386,TeX,g++-include}
/usr/local/{X386,TeX,X11,include,lib,man,etc,bin,games,emacs}
SEE ALSO
chdir(2V)
BUGS
Since whereis uses chdir(2V) to run faster, pathnames given with the -M, -S, or -B must be full; that is, they must begin with a `/'.
whereis has a hard-coded path, so may not always find what you're looking for.
AVAILABILITY
The whereis command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux July 2009 WHEREIS(1)