Without a clear example of the output you hope to get and a display showing the file hierarchy you're trying to process, it is impossible to guess at what output you want. But, if you just want a list of directories, the output from:
clearly is not going to give you what you want and using grep to get rid of some lines containing the string directory_name/ still isn't going to come even close to what you said you want.
This might come closer, but without a clear specification of what you want with examples, I have no idea whether or not this will work for you:
This was written and tested using a Korn shell, but should work with any shell that performs the basic parameter expansions required for a POSIX-conforming shell (such as ash, bash, ksh, or zsh).
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Well, I should add the
, I tried, it returns the same result as I would not expected:
I am trying the list of folders that are older than 3 years
NO! You should not add the -exec ls -l \;. Add that that primary to the find command causes every old directory to be listed instead of just printing the directories you said you wanted to print. And you said you just wanted to print the names of those directories; not the contents of those directories.
Furthermore, you said you wanted to exclude a bunch of directories from the output. Adding the -exec ls -l \; where you added it guarantees that all of the work we went to to exclude directories is ignored.
Can you please help tweak the below command to exclude all directories with the name "logs" and "tmp"
find . -type f \( ! -name "*.tar*" ! -name "*.bkp*" \) -exec /usr/xpg4/bin/grep -i "user_1" /dev/null {} + >result.out
bash-3.2$ uname -a
SunOS mymac 5.10 Generic_150400-26 sun4v sparc sun4v... (9 Replies)
How can i tweak the below find command to exclude directory/s -> "/tmp/logs"
find . -type f \( ! -name "*.log*" ! -name "*.jar*" \) -printNote: -path option/argument does not work with the version of find that i have.
bash-3.2$ uname -a
SunOS mymac 5.10 Generic_150400-26 sun4v sparc sun4v (7 Replies)
:)Hi Unix Specialists,
I need your advice on how to find all the files from root ( / ) filesystem but exclude those from /export/home (different filesystem) folder. Below are some of the find statements that I have tried without success:
find / -name '/export/home' -prune -o print -ls
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I am familiar with using tar and exclude/include files:
tar zcf backup.dirs.tgz --files-from=include.mydirs --exclude-from=exclude.mydirs --no-recursion
but was wondering if I could use find in the same way. I know that you can just specify the directories to exclude but my list is... (2 Replies)
I had a Shell script that removes the files that are in a directory older than the specified days.
find /test/files -mtime +10
I would like to add another condition to the find command above that is to exclude any file starting with ‘CGU'
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Hi,
I'm in the process of writing a shell script which will be ran under cron hourly and will check for files of specific age in my ftp folder, then moves those over inside a folder called "old" (which is within the ftp dir). But, I'm unable to figure out how to exclude the "old" folder when... (1 Reply)
Hi Forum.
I'm trying to write a script that finds and deletes files that are older than 300 days. The script will read a table that contains the following 3 columns:
1st col: “Y” means sub-directory scan; "N" means no subdirectory scan
2nd col: sub-directory location
3rd col: File prefix... (7 Replies)
Hello,
I have a line in my script to find the files changed in the last 24 hours. It is as below:
find /home/hary -type f -mtime -1
I now want to exclude a directory named "/home/hary/temp/cache" from the above find command. How do I add it to my script?
Any help is appreciated.
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Howdy
I have this directory structure ...
eep
eepaptest
eepfatest
eepgltest
eep.old
eeppoptest
ehf
ehfaptest
ehfgltest
ehp
ehpgltest
I want to find files in these directories, but I want to exclude eep, ehf & ehp.
Cany anyone help with the correct command ?? (1 Reply)
i want to compile a list of files in all sub directories but exclude the current directory.
the closest i could get was to search 'only' the current directory, which is the opposite of what i wanted.
find . ! -name . -prune (7 Replies)