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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Ignore .txt in find script Post 303024458 by Neo on Tuesday 9th of October 2018 03:39:31 AM
Old 10-09-2018
Thanks but you could have easily discovered the ! -name flags for find looking at the man page examples:

https://www.unix.com/man-page/linux/1/find/

Code:
       cd /source-dir
       find . -name .snapshot -prune -o \( \! -name *~ -print0 \)|
       cpio -pmd0 /dest-dir

See also:

https://www.unix.com/man-page/sunos/1/find/

Code:
 The following operands are supported:

       path	       A path name of a starting point in the directory hierarchy.

       expression      The first argument that starts with a -, or is a ! or a (, and all  subsequent  arguments  are
		       interpreted as an expression made up of the following primaries and operators. In the descrip-
		       tions, wherever n is used as a primary argument,  it  is  interpreted  as  a  decimal  integer
		       optionally preceded by a plus (+) or minus (-) sign, as follows:

		       +n	more than n

		       n	exactly n

		       -n	less than n


Code:
  -name pattern   True if pattern matches the current file name. Normal shell file  name  generation  characters
		       (see  sh(1))  can  be used. A backslash (\) is used as an escape character within the pattern.
		       The pattern should be escaped or quoted when find is invoked from the shell.

		       Unless the character '.' is explicitly specified in the beginning     of  pattern,  a  current
		       file   name   beginning	 with	'.'   does   not  match  pattern  when	using  /usr/bin/find.
		       /usr/xpg4/bin/find does not make this distinction; wildcard file  name  generation  characters
		       can match file names beginning with '.'.

 

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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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