Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi

experts

problem:

i have a directory "DATA" with lots of subdirectories named as date with hudge data containning files.

Directory = "DATA"
subdirectory = "20090611" & "20090612" ......
20090611 = thousands of files

i wanna apply find command to find all files in subdirectory starting pattren 200906
which also mean i wanna find all files for the month of June.

find . will find all files in all sub directories

have you tried:

Code:

find . -type f -name '200906*'

Code:

find 200906* -type f

will be faster since it only searches in the right directories

Assuming only one depth of directories under /DATA and no files with names starting with a full stop.
First find the relevant directories and then list the filenames.
The "2>/dev/null" deals with empty directories.

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
find /DATA -type d -name 200906\* -print | while read DIR
do
          ls -1d "${DIR}"/* 2>/dev/null | while read FILENAME
          do
                 if [ -f "${FILENAME}" ]
                 then
                            ls -1d "${FILENAME}"
                 fi
          done
done