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Old 07-15-2010
Question limit number of sub-dirs searched for files

using: find . -type f -print|xargs -li "string", how do I limit the dated directories (2010-7-14, 2010-7-13,etc.) to just 2009 & 2010 years of directories to search. We go back to 2004 in our archives, way too many files.

Last edited by MJThom713; 07-15-2010 at 05:21 PM..
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Old 07-15-2010
Where exactly is the date information? Is it part of the filenam, or it's just the last modification time?
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Old 07-15-2010
The date is the actual directory for each date of the year.
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Old 07-15-2010
Something like this?

Code:
find -type d -name '200[4-7]*' -prune -o -print

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