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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using a single "find" cmd to search for multiple file types and output individual files Post 302828327 by swaters on Tuesday 2nd of July 2013 09:12:27 AM
Old 07-02-2013
Using a single "find" cmd to search for multiple file types and output individual files
Hi All,

I am new here but I have a scripting question that I can't seem to figure out with the "find" cmd.

What I am trying to do is to only have to run a single find cmd parsing the directories and output the different file types to induvidual files and I have been running into problems. Below is my code:

Code:
find $ROOTDIR  \(-type f -links +1 -exec ls -liad {} \; > $BASEDIR/$OUTDIR/hardlink$EXT 2>> $ERRFILE \), \
  \(-type l -ls > $BASEDIR/$OUTDIR/symlink$EXT 2>> $ERRFILE \), \
  \(-type b > $BASEDIR/$OUTDIR/blockdev$EXT 2>> $ERRFILE \), \
  \(-type s > $BASEDIR/$OUTDIR/sock$EXT 2>> $ERRFILE \), \
  \(-type D > $BASEDIR/$OUTDIR/door$EXT 2>> $ERRFILE \), \
  \(-type p > $BASEDIR/$OUTDIR/pipe$EXT 2>> $ERRFILE \), \
  \(-type c > $BASEDIR/$OUTDIR/chardev$EXT 2>> $ERRFILE \)

When this is run I get the output:

Quote:
find: bad option ),
find: [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list
Any help is appreciated!

Thanks
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       mic-chroot can chroot into a live image to do some changes, you can use it to unpack a live image then do some changes, once changes are
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OPTIONS

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       -h, --help		      show this help message

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       --unpack-only		      Just unpack an image, this is used tounpack an image with -s option together

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