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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findrule5.18
FINDRULE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation FINDRULE(1)NAME
findrule - command line wrapper to File::Find::Rule
USAGE
findrule [path...] [expression]
DESCRIPTION
"findrule" mostly borrows the interface from GNU find(1) to provide a command-line interface onto the File::Find::Rule heirarchy of
modules.
The syntax for expressions is the rule name, preceded by a dash, followed by an optional argument. If the argument is an opening
parenthesis it is taken as a list of arguments, terminated by a closing parenthesis.
Some examples:
find -file -name ( foo bar )
files named "foo" or "bar", below the current directory.
find -file -name foo -bar
files named "foo", that have pubs (for this is what our ficticious "bar" clause specifies), below the current directory.
find -file -name ( -bar )
files named "-bar", below the current directory. In this case if we'd have omitted the parenthesis it would have parsed as a call to name
with no arguments, followed by a call to -bar.
Supported switches
I'm very slack. Please consult the File::Find::Rule manpage for now, and prepend - to the commands that you want.
Extra bonus switches
findrule automatically loads all of your installed File::Find::Rule::* extension modules, so check the documentation to see what those
would be.
AUTHOR
Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> from a suggestion by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
File::Find::Rule
perl v5.18.2 2011-09-19 FINDRULE(1)