I think this might be time to break out the -prune flag to find, perhaps. It can be used to exclude from your results all things that match a particular criteria.
So, an example. I created a sort-of-similar directory tree to yours, with one single test file containing the text "FOO" copied to all directories.
So a simple find with an appropriate -exec returns this:
So far, so normal. But now here's what happens if I use prune to exclude directories that match the pattern browser?:
The files underneath browser1, browser2 and browser3 were ignored, because even though they themselves matched we'd removed all directories whose name matched the pattern 'browser?' from consideration.
The basic syntax for prune is you set up your conditions first for what you want to exclude (so -type d -name 'browser?' in this case), and then after the -prune -o you put the conditions for what you actually want to match once what's being pruned is excluded.
Problem: I have a shell script that will be called by a Perl module that will connect to a db and delete rows. The Perl module will be called by CRON. I am using a Perl module to call a shell script because I need to get the db connection from Perl.
Here is the Perl pseudocode:
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Dear all
I am still bit new in shell script area.I am writing down a shell script which I guess somewhere wrong so please kindly correct it. I would be greatful for that.
What I actually want from this shell script is that it will move all the files one by one to another server which can be... (2 Replies)
i've looked at a bunch of the date comparison threads on these boards but unfortunately not been able to figure this thing out yet. still confused by some of the way conditionals handle variables...
here is what i where i am now...
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Hi,
I want to check if file(s) exist even in subdirectories and perform an action. After searching here couldn't find solution that would work, but made my own solution that works fine:
if
then
echo
egrep "$1|$2|$3" `find| grep MLOG`
else
echo "MLOG does not exist"
fiThat will check... (1 Reply)
I tried with sed command to create a space between namespace from the XML file. I used this syntax. Can someone tell me is this syntax is vaild?
/usr/xpg4/bin/sed -e 's/<\/^.*><^.:Errort>/<\/^.*> <^.:Errort>/g' test > test2
I dint find any changes or any space being created between... (10 Replies)
file contents looks like this :
#START
line1 of record1
line2 of record1
#END
#START
line1 of record2
line2 of record2
line3 of record2
#END
#START
line1 of record3
#END
my question how should i make it a records between #START and #END .
willl i be able to get the contents of the... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to extract some patterns from a line. The input file is space delimited and i could not use column to get value after "IN" or "OUT" patterns as there could be multiple white spaces before the next digits that i need to print in the output file . I need to print 3 patterns in a... (3 Replies)
I have a file name :
var=UsrAccChgRpt
I want to make them upper case.
Tried:
$var | tr
Error:
tr: Invalid combination of options and Strings.
Usage: tr | -ds | -s | -ds | -s ] String1 String2
tr { -d | -s | -d | -s } String1
Could you please help. I am using AIX... (2 Replies)
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For a given folder, I want to select any files find $PATH1 -f \( -name "*" but omit any files like pattern name ! -iname "*.jpg" ! -iname "*.xsession*" ..... \) and also omit any subfolder like pattern name -type d \( -name "/etc/gconf/gconf.*" -o -name "*cache*" -o -name "*Cache*" -o... (2 Replies)
Hello,
Using Bash on Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Lion). I downloaded a GrowlSafari plugin for Webkit from its GitHub page GitHub - uasi/growl-safari-bridge: GrowlSafariBridge enables arbitrary javascript (including Safari Extensions) to notify via Growl.. In the description it says that after installing for... (0 Replies)