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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Excluding directories from a find Post 302685283 by methyl on Sunday 12th of August 2012 12:30:41 AM
Old 08-12-2012
@nixie
1) Post #1 was the worst formatted post I have seen in months.
2) Please use code tags when posting code or data.
3) Please avoid punctuating code with English punctuation - particularly quotes. It makes the code read like nonsense.
4) Please do not a use Microsoft character set when posting unix code. Copy/paste via Windows Notepad to get rid of weird characters which have no meaning in unix scripts.
5) Please mention what Operating System and version you have and what Shell you are using. There is much variation on the find command and you and @alister refer to much obscure syntax which is definitely not from a unix find.


@guruprasadpr
Please avoid posting untested and erroneous code. Where does $X come from? How does you code work for multiple directories?
Last edited by methyl; 08-12-2012 at 02:22 AM..
 

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DH_INSTALLEXAMPLES(1)						     Debhelper						     DH_INSTALLEXAMPLES(1)

NAME

       dh_installexamples - install example files into package build directories

SYNOPSIS

       dh_installexamples [debhelperoptions] [-A] [-Xitem] [file...]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_installexamples is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing examples into usr/share/doc/package/examples in package build
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FILES

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	   Lists example files or directories to be installed.

OPTIONS

       -A, --all
	   Install any files specified by command line parameters in ALL packages acted on.

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NOTES

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