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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I tried to find a file lives within curent directory only, and typed
$ find . -depth 1 -ls -name *.ini
But it gave me,
find: paths must precede expression: 1
Usage: find
How'd I do it correctly ? Thanks in advance. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: abdulbadii
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
Can you please help me in understanding the importance of -depth of find.
I am trying to execute below code.find . -mtime +5 -name "*" -depth -exec ls -l {} \;
But it is throwing below error.find: warning: you have specified the -depth option after a non-option argument -mtime,... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Girish19
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I was looking at a code and stumbled over the option -depth of find command
After searching what -depth does I found the below:
-depth Process each directory's contents before the directory itself.
Does it mean the sub directories are processed before the current directory in the search... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: zulfi123786
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hello,
i want to use "-depth" in command "find" and want to exclude a directory.
the find command should work in HP-UX and Linux.
i see in the find man page:
-prune
If -depth is not given, true; do not descend the current directory.
If -depth is given, false; no effect.
-depth... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: bora99
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have the following script:
Now they have added on a new requirement, they only want to go to a certain depth in the directories returned. How do I code it to only go say 3 directories deeper than $DIRECTORY? (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: la_womn
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6. Programming
Hi,
I recently experimented with ftw() and nftw(). These are function for calling some function for every
file in a subtree.
I need to get full information about type of file.
Almost everything is working according to documentation
but I noticed following problem:
With a value FTW_PHYS... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: odys
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi
how to find the queue depth of MQ Queue using unix
please its very urgent (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: Satyak
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8. Programming
hello
im trying to find more information about the function: ftw()
however it seems every resource has the same thing
how to declare it and what it is supposed to do
does anyone know of a resource that actually has ftw used within a program, so i can get an idea of how to actually use it?... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: runawayNinja
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9. Programming
int ftw(const char *path, int(*func)(), int depth);
what does the third parameter(depth) mean?
the book said that the larger the value of depth, the fewer directories have to be reopened, therefore increasing the speed of the call.
how so?
thanks (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: bb00y
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