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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to form a correct syntax to sift out according to complementary patterns with 'find'? Post 303011106 by scrutinizerix on Saturday 13th of January 2018 03:30:58 AM
Old 01-13-2018
Apple How to form a correct syntax to sift out according to complementary patterns with 'find'?
I need to find all files and folders containing keyword from the topmost directory deep down the tree but omitting all references to keyword in web-search logs and entries, i.e. excluding search and browsing history made using web-browser1, web-browser2, web-browser3, (bypassing all entries of the type "/Users/myuser/Library/web-browser1, 2, 3/History/keyword/blahblahblah" etc. )

I use

Code:
echo MYPASSWORD | sudo -S find -E / -regex '.*/(keyword|KEYWORD)/.*' -and -not -path '.*/(web-browser1|web-browser2|web-browser3)/.*'

So far it only gets right the first half of this expression (ending with keyword) but fails to execute the second half. I tried using grep -v piping the first half of the original expression to it instead with the same argument, I modified it to
Code:
\! -path '.*/(web-browser1|web-browser2|web-browser3)/.*'

only to end up with the same result (all entries with the paths, each containing keyword). What I'm doing wrong? Is it possible to do complementary match with find or maybe I failed to arrange the regular expression correctly?
Last edited by scrutinizerix; 01-17-2018 at 04:51 PM..
 

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gnome-search-tool

gnome-search-tool(1)						   User Commands					      gnome-search-tool(1)

NAME

       gnome-search-tool - search for files

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-search-tool [--named=text] [--path=folder] [--sortby=order] [--descending] [--contains=string] [--user=user] [--nouser] [--allmounts]
       [--empty] [--follow] [--group=group] [--hidden]	[--mtimeless=date]  [--mtimemore=date]	[--notnamed=filename]  [--regex=pattern]  [--size-
       less=size] [--sizemore=size] [--start] [gnome-std-options]

DESCRIPTION

       The Search for Files application enables you to search for files on your system. Search for Files uses the find(1) command.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --allmounts	       Select the 'Search other filesystems' search constraint.

       --contains=string       Select  the  'Contains the text' search constraint and set the text of that entry. Use a full filename or a partial
			       filename with wildcards.  See find(1) for more details about using wildcards.

       --descending	       Set sort order to descending. The default sort order is ascending.

       --empty		       Select the 'File is empty' search constraint.

       --follow 	       Select the 'Follow symbolic links' search constraint.

       --group=group	       Select the 'Owned by group' search constraint and set the text of that entry.

       --hidden 	       Select the 'Show hidden and backup files' search option.

       --mtimeless=date        Select the 'Date modified before (days)' search constraint and set the text of that entry.

       --mtimemore=date        Select the 'Date modified after (days)' search constraint and set the text of that entry.

       --named=text	       Set the text of the 'Name contains' search option.

       --notnamed=filename     Select the 'File is not named' search constraint and set the text of that entry. Use a full filename or	a  partial
			       filename with wildcards.  See find(1) for more details about using wildcards.

       --nouser 	       Select the 'Owner is unrecognized' search constraint.

       --path=folder	       Set the text of the 'Look in folder' entry. Defaults to the current working directory.

       --start		       Automatically start a search.

       --regex=pattern	       Select the 'File matches regular expression' search constraint and set the text of that entry. See find(1) for more
			       details about the regular expression patterns that can be used.

       --sizeless=size	       Select the 'Size is less than (kilobytes)' search constraint and set the text of that entry.

       --sizemore=size	       Select the 'Size is more than (kilobytes)' search constraint and set the text of that entry.

       --sortby=order	       Sort files by one of the following: name, folder, size, type, or date.

       --user=user	       Select the  'Owned by user' search constraint and set the text of that entry.

       gnome-std-options       Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Performing a basic search automatically

       example% gnome-search-tool --name=a.out --path=$HOME --autostart

       Example 2: Performing an advanced search automatically

       example% gnome-search-tool --contains=unistd.h --mtimeless=3 --sortby=size      --autostart

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-search-tool      Executable for Search for Files

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-search-tool	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Search for Files Manual

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       find(1), gnome-std-options(5)

NOTES

       Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2006.

SunOS 5.11							    2 Oct 2003						      gnome-search-tool(1)
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