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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find command with ignore directory Post 302783405 by alister on Wednesday 20th of March 2013 11:44:20 AM
Old 03-20-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by in2nix4life
Add a not (!) to the find command to exclude that directory.

i.e.
Code:
find /dir/path/ -name 'dir*' ! -name 'dir2'

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.

Regards,
Alister
 

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Any::Template::ProcessDir(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			    Any::Template::ProcessDir(3pm)

NAME
Any::Template::ProcessDir -- Process a directory of templates VERSION
version 0.07 SYNOPSIS
use Any::Template::ProcessDir; # Process templates and generate result files in a single directory # my $pd = Any::Template::ProcessDir->new( dir => '/path/to/dir', process_text => sub { my $template = Any::Template->new( Backend => '...', String => $_[0] ); $template->process({ ... }); } ); $pd->process_dir(); # Process templates and generate result files to a separate directory # my $pd = Any::Template::ProcessDir->new( source_dir => '/path/to/source/dir', dest_dir => '/path/to/dest/dir', process_file => sub { my $file = $_[0]; # do something with $file, return content } ); $pd->process_dir(); DESCRIPTION
Recursively processes a directory of templates, generating a set of result files in the same directory or in a parallel directory. Each file in the source directory may be template-processed, copied, or ignored depending on its pathname. CONSTRUCTOR
Specifying directory/directories o If you want to generate the result files in the same directory as the templates, just specify dir. my $pd = Any::Template::ProcessDir->new( dir => '/path/to/dir', ... ); o If you want to generate the result files in a separate directory from the templates, specify source_dir and dest_dir. my $pd = Any::Template::ProcessDir->new( source_dir => '/path/to/source/dir', source_dir => '/path/to/dest/dir', ... ); Specifying how to process templates process_file A code reference that takes the full template filename and the "Any::Template::ProcessDir" object as arguments, and returns the result string. This can use Any::Template or another method altogether. By default it calls "process_text" on the contents of the file. process_text A code reference that takes the template text and the "Any::Template::ProcessDir" object as arguments, and returns the result string. This can use Any::Template or another method altogether. Optional parameters dir_create_mode Permissions mode to use when creating destination directories. Defaults to 0775. No effect if you are using a single directory. file_create_mode Permissions mode to use when creating destination files. Defaults to 0444 (read-only), so that destination files are not accidentally edited. ignore_files Coderef which takes a full pathname and returns true if the file should be ignored. By default, all files will be considered. readme_filename Name of a README file to generate in the destination directory - defaults to "README". No file will be generated if you pass undef or if you are using a single directory. template_file_suffix Suffix of template files in source directory. Defaults to ".src". This will be removed from the destination file name. Any file in the source directory that does not have this suffix (or "ignore_file_suffix") will simply be copied to the destination. METHODS
process_dir Process the directory. If using multiple directories, the destination directory will be removed completely and recreated, to eliminate any old files from previous processing. SEE ALSO
Any::Template COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Jonathan Swartz. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-05-14 Any::Template::ProcessDir(3pm)
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