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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Linux find command : how to use multiple conditions Post 303035691 by Chubler_XL on Thursday 30th of May 2019 10:34:06 PM
Old 05-30-2019
It is also worth pointing out that any of the conditions A thru C that match a directory will ignore anything under the directory as well.

So for example if a directory had a mod time outside of the foo_deb to foo_end range all contents below that point would be excluded from the find.

For example:

Code:
$ mkdir -p date_chk/{one,two}/{in,out,Documents,Music}
$ touch -t 201901011033 date_chk/{one,two}/{in,out}/oldy date_chk/one
$ touch date_chk/{one,two}/{in,out,Documents,Music}/{okfile,.xsession_notOK,.Xauthor}
$ touch -t 201903011000 foo_deb
$ touch -t 201912011000 foo_end
$ ./date_chk
./date_chk/two
./date_chk/two/in
./date_chk/two/in/okfile
./date_chk/two/out
./date_chk/two/out/okfile

Everything under date_chk/one is now discarded due to the folder being out of the date range! If you have file level criteria these need to follow the folder stuff and proceed the print like this:

Code:
find path \( \
   \( [folder-condition A] \) -prune -o \
   \( [folder-condition B] \) -prune -o \
   \( [folder-condition C] \) -prune \
\) -o \( \
   \( [file-condition D] \) -o
   \( [file-condition E] \) \
\) -o -print

Another example
Code:
$ find ./date_chk \( \
     \( -type d \( -iname Documents -o -iname Music \) \) -prune -o \
     \( -type f \( -name ".xsession*" -o -name ".Xauthor*" \) \) -prune \) \
     -o \(  \
        -newer foo_end -o ! -newer foo_deb -o ! -type f \) -o -print
./date_chk/one/in/okfile
./date_chk/one/out/okfile
./date_chk/two/in/okfile
./date_chk/two/out/okfile

Now we get only File types within range, regardless of the time on the parent folder(s).
 

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NAME

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