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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Exclude directories in FIND command Post 302984099 by mohtashims on Thursday 20th of October 2016 04:36:32 PM
Old 10-20-2016
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MadeInGermany
Well, in this case it is
Code:
find . -type d \( -name "logs" -o -name "tmp" \) -prune -o ...

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.

---------- Post updated at 03:36 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:34 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.

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.

Please help.
 

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DU(1)									FSF								     DU(1)

NAME
du - estimate file space usage SYNOPSIS
du [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION
Summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for directories. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -a, --all write counts for all files, not just directories -B, --block-size=SIZE use SIZE-byte blocks -b, --bytes print size in bytes -c, --total produce a grand total -D, --dereference-args dereference FILEs that are symbolic links -h, --human-readable print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G) -H, --si likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024 -k like --block-size=1K -l, --count-links count sizes many times if hard linked -L, --dereference dereference all symbolic links -S, --separate-dirs do not include size of subdirectories -s, --summarize display only a total for each argument -x, --one-file-system skip directories on different filesystems -X FILE, --exclude-from=FILE Exclude files that match any pattern in FILE. --exclude=PATTERN Exclude files that match PATTERN. --max-depth=N print the total for a directory (or file, with --all) only if it is N or fewer levels below the command line argument; --max-depth=0 is the same as --summarize --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit SIZE may be (or may be an integer optionally followed by) one of following: kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1,000,000, M 1,048,576, and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y. PATTERNS
PATTERN is a shell pattern (not a regular expression). The pattern ? matches any one character, whereas * matches any string (composed of zero, one or multiple characters). For example, *.o will match any files whose names end in .o. Therefore, the command du --exclude='*.o' will skip all files and subdirectories ending in .o (including the file .o itself). AUTHOR
Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, Larry McVoy, and Paul Eggert. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU- LAR PURPOSE. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for du is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and du programs are properly installed at your site, the com- mand info du should give you access to the complete manual. du (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 DU(1)
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