I need to perform a non-recursive find in Unix. Sounds simple, but it doesn't actually work. The command ALWAYS searches through the subdirectories.
Any ideas? I am on DEC Unix :-( (3 Replies)
Hello, I am trying to search a directory for all files matching "G*" without looking in sub-directories "success" and "error". I've searched this forum and found the following syntax, but can't make it work:
find . \( ! -name success -prune -name error -prune \) -type f -name "G*"
Have... (6 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I'm using a recursive find (you know the type, find . -name qwert*) to find a set of files. However, because I'm new to the system and there is not much documentation about these particular files I'm trying to find them using this recursive find.
I started off at the location... (3 Replies)
I HAVE A TEXT FILE CONTAINING THE VALUES
1.CPP
2.CPP
3.CPP
4.CPP
5.CPP
6.CPP
I WANT TO TAKE EACH .CPP AND USE THE FIND COMMAND TO FIND THE LATEST VERSION OF THE FOLDER IN WHICH IT IS PRESENT.
HOW DO I IMPLEMENT IT IN A WHILE LOOP
I TRIED SOMETHING LIKE THIS
WHILE
CAT... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have question is related to find command. I want to find command should search in current folder only not recursive mode(sub-folders).
I found a one way of,
find . \( -name success -prune \) -o -name "Rajini*"
How ever, my current folder is having lots sub-folders and am not... (7 Replies)
I was working on a shell script and found that the find command took too long, especially when I had to execute it multiple times. After some thought and research I came up with two functions.
fileScan()
filescan will cd into a directory and perform any operations you would like from within... (8 Replies)
Tricky one:
I want to do several things all at once to blow away a directory (rm -rf <dir>)
1) I want to find all files recursively that have a specific file extension (.ver) for example.
2) Then in that file, I want to grep for an expression ( "sp2" ) for example.
3) Then I want to... (1 Reply)
Hello Unix Gurus,
I am using the following find commands:
1)
find Input_Path -name '*.' -exec mv -f
{} Outputpath \;
2)
find Inputpath -name '*.' -exec cp
{} Outputpath \;
3)
find Somepath -name '*.'
Now the problem is my Unix version does not support maxdepth Option for find... (7 Replies)
Is there a way to use the find command to recursively scan directories for files greater than 1Gb in size and print out the directory path and file name only?
Thanks in advance. (6 Replies)
Hi All
I have a requirement to find the file that are most latest to be modified in each directory. Can somebody help with the command please?
E.g of the problem.
The directory A is having sub directory which are having subdirectory an so on.
I need a command which will find the... (2 Replies)
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)