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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to search in specific directory using find? Post 302927364 by Little on Tuesday 2nd of December 2014 01:36:59 PM
Old 12-02-2014
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MadeInGermany
The general way of excluding (all!) d3 directories is
Code:
find /home -type d -name d3 -prune -o -print

GNU find (Linux) can be told to only prune the search at /home/d3
Code:
find /home -type d -path /home/d3 -prune -o -print

You can replace -print by other actions.
I want to search for a particular file say f1 in
/home
/home/d1
/home/d2

excluding /home/d3

In the above example you gave, where should i specify the filename?
 

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hal-find(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      hal-find(1M)

NAME
hal-find, hal-find-by-capability, hal-find-by-property - search HAL global device list SYNOPSIS
hal-find-by-capability --capability capability [--help] [--verbose] [--version] hal-find-by-property --key key --string value [--help] [--verbose] [--version] DESCRIPTION
The hal-find commands, hal-find-by-capability and hal-find-by-property, search the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) device list by speci- fied criteria and displays results on the standard output. hal-find-by-capability searches by capability, such as volume or block. hal- find-by-property searches by property, such as block.is_volume or volume.disc.has_audio. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: --capability capability HAL device capability to search for. --help Display list of options. --key key The key to the property that is the basis of the search. --string value The string value associated with the property that is the basis of the search. --verbose Verbose mode. --version Display version and exit. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWhalr | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
hald(1M), attributes(5), hal(5) SunOS 5.11 22 Aug 2006 hal-find(1M)
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