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Old 04-19-2011
regex help with 'find'
How to do alternation using regular expressions in the 'find' command? Like say you want to find all files that do not match the names specifically "this" or "that" within a directory using regular expressions?
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Old 04-19-2011
Code:
find . -type f \( ! -name '*this*' -a ! -name '*that*' \)

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Old 04-19-2011
Gotta be a better way than typing -name a bunch of times?
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Old 04-19-2011
If you have Linux, the -regex option is available, but not with standard find, no.

You could also just pipe its output through egrep which should be able to handle it fine.
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Old 04-19-2011
Awesome. I'm curious, could you get the same deal working for the files your searching in instead of the files your searching for?
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Old 04-19-2011
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Originally Posted by stevensw
I'm curious, could you get the same deal working for the files your searching in instead of the files your searching for?
Sorry, what?
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Old 04-19-2011
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Originally Posted by Corona688
Sorry, what?
like find "regex" -name "somefile"

where regex could be a bunch of directories that fall within the regex?
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