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# 1  
Old 08-22-2009
help me out with find command , -prune option

Hi , Kindly help me out .Smilie

i want to find only the file t4 in directory t3. i am in dir t . the tree is as follows.

if i give,

find .
o/p is
.
./t4
./t1
./t1/t2
./t1/t2/t3
./t1/t2/t3/t4
./t1/t2/t4
./t1/t4

directories are like t/t1/t2/t3 and each directory has file t4.
my question is , i want to find file t4 inside directory t3 without looking in to the other sub directories.on for

how will i use -prune option for that?

i want an o/p like this:
./t1/t2/t3/t4
# 2  
Old 08-22-2009
MySQL

Hope it helps.

Code:
find -mindepth 3 -maxdepth 4 -iname "t4"

# 3  
Old 08-22-2009
maxdepth is a GNUism, so if you don't use Linux, or if the depth may be different:

Code:
find . -type d -name t3 | xargs -I{} find {} -type f -name t4

or:

Code:
find . -type f -name t4 | grep /t3/t4$

# 4  
Old 08-24-2009
thank u for your help. but i need tat o/p using -prune option in find command


Quote:
Originally Posted by thegeek
Hope it helps.

Code:
find -mindepth 3 -maxdepth 4 -iname "t4"

# 5  
Old 08-25-2009
Why do you "need" the output using -prune, when other solutions exist?
# 6  
Old 08-25-2009
-prune option

Hi,
I am learning about -prune option. So only i asked that specifically. Can please give me a samle command which demonstrates the -prune option? ?

this was your ans for my question.
Code:
find -mindepth 3 -maxdepth 4 -iname "t4"

But u need not specify maxdepth. the following will work well , which is an alteration of ur ans.
Code:
find -mindepth 4 -name "t4"

Quote:
Originally Posted by scottn
Why do you "need" the output using -prune, when other solutions exist?

Last edited by zaxxon; 08-26-2009 at 09:09 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 7  
Old 08-26-2009
You don't need prune. Just tell find to only search the directory you require.

Code:
find ./t1/t2/t3 -name t4 -print

Output is:
./t1/t2/t3/t4

 
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