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Old 02-11-2015
Find Command Include Sub Directory
This script writes the output files to FILES but I don't want to exclude all directories from ABC_CHQ and LYS_ADV, I want to include one sub directory name process which is under ABC_CHQ and LYS_ADV in the search. Right now its excluding everything from prune directories such as ABC_CHQ, LYS_ADV etc.

Please let me know how can I include only one sub directory which is under ABC_CHQ lets say.

Code:
FILES=`find /home/u10/payments -name "ABC_CHQ" -prune -o \
    -name "ABCD_CTRE" -prune -o -name "LYS_ADV" -prune -o -type f -mtime +$DAYS \
      -exec ls {} \;`

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Last edited by jim mcnamara; 02-11-2015 at 06:20 PM..
# 2  
Old 02-11-2015
Code:
FILES=`find /home/u10/payments/ABC_CHQ  -type f -mtime +$DAYS -exec ls {} \;`

Try that.

Also please note that -o and -a require ( ) example:

Code:
find . \( name abc -o -name foo \) -mtime +10

Your code probably did not do what you expected.
# 3  
Old 02-11-2015
Jim, code is working fine, tell me how to include one sub directory from the said directory.

Thanks
# 4  
Old 02-11-2015
Your description of what you're trying to do leaves some requirements ambiguous. With lots of guessing, the following might come close to what you're trying to do:
Code:
FILES=$(find /home/u10/payments \
	/home/u10/payments/ABC_CHQ/subdir1 \
	/home/u10/payments/LYS_ADV/subdir2 \
	\( -name ABC_CHQ -prune \) -o \
	\( -name ABCD_CTRE -prune \) -o \
	\( -name LYS_ADV -prune \) -o \
	-type f -print)

It will store a list of regular files in and under /home/u10/payments,/home/u10/payments/ABC_CHQ/subdir1, and /home/u10/payments/LYS_ADV/subdir2 while ignoring files in other subdirectories under /home/u10/payments/ABC_CHQ and /home/u10/payments/LYS_ADV, and all files under /home/u10/payments/ABCD_CTRE.
This User Gave Thanks to Don Cragun For This Post:
John William
# 5  
Old 02-12-2015
Thanks a lot Don, Its working perfectly fine.
# 6  
Old 02-12-2015
Trivial, but '-print' or '-exec ls {}' are usually unnecessary, as 'find' prints file names unless you tell it you want something else.

It might be easier to make a clone tree of the dirs you *do* want, once, and search in it. A clone tree can be built up using either symlinks to dirs or identically named dirs containing links to files. If you use sym links for files or dirs, the '-follow' is needed to make 'find' traverse them.
# 7  
Old 02-12-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by DGPickett
Trivial, but '-print' or '-exec ls {}' are usually unnecessary, as 'find' prints file names unless you tell it you want something else.

It might be easier to make a clone tree of the dirs you *do* want, once, and search in it. A clone tree can be built up using either symlinks to dirs or identically named dirs containing links to files. If you use sym links for files or dirs, the '-follow' is needed to make 'find' traverse them.
The -print is needed in this case because the directory names that have files under them pruned will be printed as part of the default case. Adding the explicit -print (or the MUCH less efficient and MUCH slower -exec ls {} \;) in the case where we want the pathnames printed will avoid printing those unwanted directory names.
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