Did you discard the exclusion of files that i mentioned in the OP ?
You seem to have only mentioned exclusion of directory while i wanted exclusion of files (which works in the OP command) along with the directories.
Kindly help.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
This is immediately from man find:
Do you feel able to adapt it to your problem?
I am not able to understand your suggestion so as to make changes to include the directories along with the files. Can you tweak the command in the OP to include directories is what i m seeking help for.
Please help.
---------- Post updated at 03:36 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:36 PM ----------
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
This is immediately from man find:
Do you feel able to adapt it to your problem?
I am not able to understand your suggestion so as to make changes to include the directories along with the files. Can you tweak the command in the OP to include directories is what i m seeking help for.
Howdy
I have this directory structure ...
eep
eepaptest
eepfatest
eepgltest
eep.old
eeppoptest
ehf
ehfaptest
ehfgltest
ehp
ehpgltest
I want to find files in these directories, but I want to exclude eep, ehf & ehp.
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I have a line in my script to find the files changed in the last 24 hours. It is as below:
find /home/hary -type f -mtime -1
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Any help is appreciated.
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Hi,
Can some one help me how to exclude multiple directories using find command..
I have the directory structure below.
/a/a1/b1
/a/c1/c2
/a/d1/d2/d3
I want to exlcude a1,c2and d3 from the above using find,can some one suggest pls..
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Hi,
I use find command to list all the files in a directory and its sub-directories, but the problem is to exclude certain directories during search. Can i give the directory names in command line to skip them and search rest of the directories?
For example i have directories:
test
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Hi,
Firstly - sorry for the duplicate my other post looked like i was posting a how to for people. But i am wanting some help :P
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Hi all,
Using grep command, i want to find the pattern of text in all directories and sub-directories.
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Hi, im having some issues after i execute the next command:
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)