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Hi,
find /pc62/exports -name "*.Z" -mtime +1 -exec ls -l {} \;
gives me set of files older than a day. But I aim is to have all such files listed except "ABC*.Z". How do I filter such files?
Would appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Preeti

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Thank You!

Following is 'finding' in subdirectories of /pc62/exports
Is there any way to have listing associated for /pc62/exports only and not the subdirectories of exports.

find /pc62/exports \! -name "ABC*.Z" -name "*.Z" -mtime +1 -exec ls -l {} \;

I actually plan to do 'rm' on those listed files in a shell script using
find /pc62/exports \! -name "ABC*.Z" -name "*.Z" -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;

Thanks for any help!

Try throwing "-prune" into your find command.

Throwing -prune into the find command is the answer, but a bit more detail is needed since -prune is rather confusing.

find /pc62/exports \( ! -name exports -prune \) ! -name "ABC*.Z" -name "*.Z" -mtime +1 -exec ls -l {} \;

is one solution. But it causes find to only look in directories named "exports". So something like /pc62/exports/exports/exports/something.Z would be found. The only perfect solution is to use "."

cd /pc62/exports
find . \( ! -name . -prune \) ! -name "ABC*.Z" -name "*.Z" -mtime +1 -exec ls -l {} \;

If you anticipate a lot of files --- 20? 50? 100? 1000? --- you might consider (using Perderabo's post as a starting point)

Code:

find /pc62/exports \( ! -name exports -prune \) \
    ! -name "ABC*.Z" -name "*.Z" \
    -mtime +1 | xargs ls -l

This makes fewer invocations of "ls" (or "rm" for that matter).

Hmm ... maybe throwing in a "-type f" is a good idea, too.

CAUTION When invoking "rm" for these files, get the listing via "ls" first, and verify file by file that this is what you want to do. I was recently stung by this and have spent hours (with another hour or so to go) getting the important parts straightened out ...