I am trying to use the find command to find files in the current directory that meet a certain date criteria.
find . -type -f -mtime +2
However, the above also checks the directories below.
I tried -prune, but that seems to ignore this directory completely.
I read about using -path w/... (5 Replies)
I need to find whether there is a file named vijay is there or not in folder named "opt" .I tried "ls *|grep vijay" but it showed permission problem.
so i need to use find command (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm trying to use the find command to return matches for a directory and file.
For example, given the following directories:
/one/two/three/file1.txt
/one/three/two/file1.txt
/one/four/two/three/file1.txt
I'm expecting the following to be returned:
... (16 Replies)
Hello,
I know find can be prevented from recursing into directories with something like the following...
find . -name .svn -prune -a type d
But how can I completely prevent directories of a certain name (.svn) from being displayed at all, the top level and the children?
I really... (2 Replies)
i am trying to recursively save a remote FTP server but exclude the files immediately under a directory directory1
wget -r -N ftp://user:pass@hostname/directory1
I want to keep these which may have more files under them
directory1/dir1/file.jpg
directory1/dir2/file.jpg... (16 Replies)
This script writes the output files to FILES but I don't want to exclude all directories from ABC_CHQ and LYS_ADV, I want to include one sub directory name process which is under ABC_CHQ and LYS_ADV in the search. Right now its excluding everything from prune directories such as ABC_CHQ, LYS_ADV... (10 Replies)
so i have a script that i do not want copies of that script to be roaming around. i want that script to be in only one location on the filesystem, and whoever wants to use it should just link to it.
any idea on how to exit from a script if it is detected that the running version is a copy and... (5 Replies)
How can i tweak the below find command to exclude directory/s -> "/tmp/logs"
find . -type f \( ! -name "*.log*" ! -name "*.jar*" \) -printNote: -path option/argument does not work with the version of find that i have.
bash-3.2$ uname -a
SunOS mymac 5.10 Generic_150400-26 sun4v sparc sun4v (7 Replies)
Hi,
I am using following command to find a specific file.
find . -name "find*.txt" -type f -print
I am issuing that command at root directory since I don't know in which sub folder that file is getting created from some other process.
As I am not having access to all directories, my... (3 Replies)
I am using aix. I would like to ignore the /u directory. I tried this but it is not working.
find / -type f -type d \( -path /u \) -prune -o -name '*rpm*' 2>/dev/null
/u/appx/ls.rpm
/u/arch/vim.rpm (4 Replies)
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file::find::wanted
Wanted(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Wanted(3pm)NAME
File::Find::Wanted - More obvious wrapper around File::Find
VERSION
Version 1.00
SYNOPSIS
File::Find is a great module, except that it doesn't actually find anything. Its "find()" function walks a directory tree and calls a
callback function. Unfortunately, the callback function is deceptively called "wanted", which implies that it should return a boolean
saying whether you want the file. That's not how it works.
Most of the time you call "find()", you just want to build a list of files. There are other modules that do this for you, most notably
Richard Clamp's great File::Find::Rule, but in many cases, it's overkill, and you need to learn a new syntax.
With the "find_wanted" function, you supply a callback sub and a list of starting directories, but the sub actually should return a boolean
saying whether you want the file in your list or not.
To get a list of all files ending in .jpg:
my @files = find_wanted( sub { -f && /.jpg$/ }, $dir );
For a list of all directories that are not CVS or .svn:
my @files = find_wanted( sub { -d && !/^(CVS|.svn)$/ }, $dir ) );
It's easy, direct, and simple.
WHY DO THIS ?
The cynical may say "that's just the same as doing this":
my @files;
find( sub { push @files, $File::Find::name if -f && /.jpg$/ }, $dir );
Sure it is, but File::Find::Wanted makes it more obvious, and saves a line of code. That's worth it to me. I'd like it if find_wanted()
made its way into the File::Find distro, but for now, this will do.
FUNCTIONS
find_wanted( &wanted, @directories )
Descends through @directories, calling the wanted function as it finds each file. The function returns a list of all the files and
directories for which the wanted function returned a true value.
This is just a wrapper around "File::Find::find()". See File::Find for details on how to modify its behavior.
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2005-2012 Andy Lester.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License v2.0.
perl v5.14.2 2012-06-08 Wanted(3pm)