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Hi

I am using 'find' on a particular directory which has some subdirectories too,so when I search for .txt files from the parent directory, it gives all files that matches the pattern in the parent aswellas in the sub directories .
eg:
Iam at /a/b/c
where c has many other directories in it
so when I use find at /a/b/c as " find . -type f -name ".txt" -mtime +6"
it gives me the result like this...

Code:

/a/b/c/20060530_PFCA.txt
/a/b/c/20060530_PFCA_NYC.txt
/a/b/c/20060530_USConvProp.txt
/a/b/c/c1/20060530_USConvProp.txt
/a/b/c/c1/c2/20060530_RES.txt
/a/b/c/c1/c2/c3/20060530_IR_RES.txt

Now I need only the filenames from the above result,As far I know cut command didnt help to get my requirement

Can anyone helpme how can I get only the filenames(eg:20060530_PFCA.txt) from the above result by using "cut" command or with anyother command..

Many thanx in advance...

Try

Code:

find . -type f -name ".txt" -mtime +6 | sed 's/\/.*\///g'

Perfect! Many thanx !!

Other options:

Code:

$ find . -type f -name ".txt" -mtime +6 | awk -F/ '{print $NF}'
$ find . -type f -name ".txt" -mtime +6 | awk -F/ '{print $NF}' | while read path; basename $path; done

Could you pls explain me how it works(sed 's/\/.*\///g')?

It matches, and removes everything between and including the first and last slash characters

Perhaps a bit more readable is:

Code:

$ find . -type f -name ".txt" -mtime +6 | sed 's|.*/||g'

An alternative:

Code:

$ find . -type f -name ".txt" -mtime +6 | xargs -n1 basename

Thanks for the above,can anyone pls tell me how can I exclude searching a particular directory using 'find'

for eg: in the path /a/b/c, c1,c2 are two directories
I want find to skip the c2 directory,I opted several ways that didnt help

could you pls help

thanx