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Old 06-01-2010
Filtering a file
I have a list of directories looking something like;

Code:
/usr/local/1/in
/usr/local/1/out
/usr/local/1/archive
/usr/local/2/in
/usr/local/2/out
/usr/local/2/archive
/usr/local/3/in
/usr/local/3/out
/usr/local/3/archive

Is there a way I can filter the out and archive directories so I can use them as a variable in a "find" script.

E.g. I want to run;

Code:
find ${archive} -type f -mtime +6 -exec rm {} \;

On only the archive directory and;

Code:
find ${out} -type f -mtime +2 -exec mv {} ../archive \;

Only on the out directory.
JayC89
# 2  
Old 06-01-2010
Something like this?
Code:
find /usr/local/*/archive -type f ...

# 3  
Old 06-01-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by pludi
Something like this?
Code:
find /usr/local/*/archive -type f ...

Hi Pludi,

I was looking for it in a variable if possible. I am aware of out to do it statically like you mentioned however if the list was to ever change e.g.

Code:
/usr/local/1/in
/usr/local/1/out
/usr/local/1/archive
/usr/local/1/test/in
/usr/local/1/test/out
/usr/local/1/test/archive

The location of the out\archive directories would differ so a static /usr/local/*/out wouldnt suffice, would it?
JayC89
# 4  
Old 06-02-2010
Some versions of find (AFAIK GNU find and HP-UX find) support a -path predicate:
Code:
find /usr/local -path '*/archive/*' -type f ...

# 5  
Old 06-02-2010
Code:
find /usr/local -type d | grep -E 'out$|archive$'

# 6  
Old 06-02-2010
Thanks for all the replies guys. At the moment I have ended up using;

Code:
#
# Run the archive clear down
#
for archive in `cat ${client_list} | grep /archive` ; do find ${archive} -type f -mtime +6 -exec rm -f {} \; ; done

#
# Run the out clear down
#
for out in `cat ${client_list} | grep /out` ; do find ${out} -type f -mtime +2 -exec mv {} ${out}/../archive \; ; done

Which works perfectly, however what I was really looking for is something similar to a case script where it checks whether it contains archive or out and runs the relevant command - just to make it a little tidier!
JayC89
 
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