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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash to move specific files from folders in find file Post 302981656 by RavinderSingh13 on Friday 16th of September 2016 02:19:35 PM
Old 09-16-2016
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Originally Posted by cmccabe
I will try to set the maxdepth. Thank you Smilie.
Hello cmccabe,

In your post#3 I saw you asked how to exclude any directory or sub-directory in findcommand then following could help you in same. To exclude a directory and only print all the file names following may help you in same.
Code:
find . -maxdepth 2 -type d -name "again_test*" -prune -o -type f -name "test*" -print

If you are happy with above command then you could copy files to the destination directory by following command.
Code:
find . -maxdepth 2 -type d -name "again_test*" -prune -o -type f -name "test*" -exec cp -t /tmp {} \+

So in above codes change values of again_test*to that directory which you want to exclude, test*with those file extensions/names which you want to find here,/tmpwith your destination path please. Change maxdepthvalue as per your need here. Kindly do test the same and please do let us know how it goes for this.

Thanks,
R. Singh
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ATF-SH(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 ATF-SH(1)

NAME
atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library. atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter- preter, loads the atf-sh(3) library and then runs the script. You must consider atf-sh to be a POSIX shell by default and thus should not use any non-standard extensions. The following options are available: -s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL. ENVIRONMENT
ATF_LIBEXECDIR Overrides the builtin directory where atf-sh is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_PKGDATADIR Overrides the builtin directory where libatf-sh.subr is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. Scripts must not rely on this variable being set to select a specific interpreter. EXAMPLES
Scripts using atf-sh(3) should start with: #! /usr/bin/env atf-sh Alternatively, if you want to explicitly choose a shell interpreter, you cannot rely on env(1) to find atf-sh. Instead, you have to hardcode the path to atf-sh in the script and then use the -s option afterwards as a single parameter: #! /path/to/bin/atf-sh -s/bin/bash ENVIRONMENT
ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. SEE ALSO
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