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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Unable to find files using wildcard on AIX. Post 303044230 by MadeInGermany on Monday 17th of February 2020 04:40:41 AM
Old 02-17-2020
(@Neo, nothing was really missing. I was able to construct the output from the given input sample and the given code. And no error message.)

The * in shell glob and find glob means every - even zero - amount of characters, so have another ? that means one character.
Further, you can egrep -v '/BACKUP/|/REJECTED/' the unwanted files, but most efficient is to let find prune=skip these directories.
As a rule of thumb, have the pruned directories first and continue with -o=OR=OTHERWISE.
Code:
find /tmp/custom -type d \( -name "BACKUP" -o -name "REJECTED" \) -prune -o -type f \( -name '*.xml?*' -o -name "*.js?*" \) -print

You must explicitly print on the desired branch in order to not implicitly print on both branches.
Llast but not least, *.js?* covers *.jsp?* so the letter is not needed. (Perhaps you want -name "*.js?*" \! -name "*.jsp" or -name "*.js??*"?)
Last edited by MadeInGermany; 02-17-2020 at 05:52 AM.. Reason: The -prune was missing
 

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git-pack-refs

GIT-PACK-REFS(1)                                                    Git Manual                                                    GIT-PACK-REFS(1)

NAME

       git-pack-refs - Pack heads and tags for efficient repository access

SYNOPSIS

       git pack-refs [--all] [--no-prune]

DESCRIPTION

       Traditionally, tips of branches and tags (collectively known as refs) were stored one file per ref in a (sub)directory under $GIT_DIR/refs
       directory. While many branch tips tend to be updated often, most tags and some branch tips are never updated. When a repository has
       hundreds or thousands of tags, this one-file-per-ref format both wastes storage and hurts performance.

       This command is used to solve the storage and performance problem by storing the refs in a single file, $GIT_DIR/packed-refs. When a ref is
       missing from the traditional $GIT_DIR/refs directory hierarchy, it is looked up in this file and used if found.

       Subsequent updates to branches always create new files under $GIT_DIR/refs directory hierarchy.

       A recommended practice to deal with a repository with too many refs is to pack its refs with --all once, and occasionally run git
       pack-refs. Tags are by definition stationary and are not expected to change. Branch heads will be packed with the initial pack-refs --all,
       but only the currently active branch heads will become unpacked, and the next pack-refs (without --all) will leave them unpacked.

OPTIONS

       --all
           The command by default packs all tags and refs that are already packed, and leaves other refs alone. This is because branches are
           expected to be actively developed and packing their tips does not help performance. This option causes branch tips to be packed as
           well. Useful for a repository with many branches of historical interests.

       --no-prune
           The command usually removes loose refs under $GIT_DIR/refs hierarchy after packing them. This option tells it not to.

BUGS

       Older documentation written before the packed-refs mechanism was introduced may still say things like ".git/refs/heads/<branch> file
       exists" when it means "branch <branch> exists".

GIT

       Part of the git(1) suite

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