Add a not (!) to the find command to exclude that directory.
i.e.
That will exclude the directory itself, but not the tree beneath it; find will still descend into its contents and generate output. To prevent that, a -prune is required.
Further, since -name only looks at the basename, -name cannot match an absolute pathname. There could be many instances of dir2 within /dir/path.
A POSIX-compliant invocation will need to use -exec to call test/[ to check the full pathname (via {}). However, a few finds support a -path which can do the job more efficiently.
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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mvdir
mvdir(1M)mvdir(1M)NAME
mvdir - move a directory
SYNOPSIS
dir newdir
DESCRIPTION
moves one directory tree into another existing directory (within the same file system), or renames a directory without moving it.
dir must be an existing directory.
If newdir does not exist but the directory that would contain it does, dir is moved and/or renamed to newdir. Otherwise, newdir must be an
existing directory not already containing an entry with the same name as the last pathname component of dir. In this case, dir is moved
and becomes a subdirectory of newdir. The last pathname component of dir is used as the name for the moved directory.
refuses to move dir if the path specified by newdir would be a descendent directory of the path specified by dir. Such cases are not
allowed because cyclic sub-trees would be created as in the case, for example, of which is prohibited.
does not allow directory to be moved.
Only users who have appropriate privileges can use
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
International Code Set Support
Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.
AUTHOR
was developed by OSF and HP.
SEE ALSO cp(1), mkdir(1), mv(1).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE mvdir(1M)