Is this still the best way to do it (the post is over 5 years old)?
QUESTION 2:
IF the above post is still the best way to do it I end up with the following command:
Which I have configured the following alias for:
Running
findx -name "TEST" -print
Works perfectly however, is there anyway I can have the alias setup to accept input like a script can or should I just put it in a script so it can accept parameters
for example
so I would be able to just run:
findx TEST
instead of having to put in -name "TEST" -print
If that's a no what would the easiest way to put this in a script, so i could run it that way?
QUESTION 3:
Again IF this is still the best way of doing it does this command
Completely bypass the pruned directories or is it simply not printing anything from within those directories it finds? Because it seems to take an awful long time to search STILL even with those 3 drives excluded....
Hi,
uname -a
SunOS mymac 5.11 11.2 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
I need to tar a folder /tmp/moht but do not want these three folders to be included in the tar file -> savejpg, bmpsave and imgsave
I tried --exclude, -path, -not options but it says bad option
Can you help me with... (3 Replies)
Can you please help tweak the below command to exclude all directories with the name "logs" and "tmp"
find . -type f \( ! -name "*.tar*" ! -name "*.bkp*" \) -exec /usr/xpg4/bin/grep -i "user_1" /dev/null {} + >result.out
bash-3.2$ uname -a
SunOS mymac 5.10 Generic_150400-26 sun4v sparc sun4v... (9 Replies)
Hi, im having some issues after i execute the next command:
tar -cvf /varios/restore/test.tar -X /jfma/test1/excludefile /jfma | gzip -c > /varios/restore/test.tar.gz
this creates the desired "test.tar.gz" file, but whe i try to open it it says "tar: 0511-164 There is a media read or write... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
Using grep command, i want to find the pattern of text in all directories and sub-directories.
e.g: if i want to search for a pattern named "parmeter", i used the command
grep -i "param" ../*
is this correct? (1 Reply)
Hi,
I use find command to list all the files in a directory and its sub-directories, but the problem is to exclude certain directories during search. Can i give the directory names in command line to skip them and search rest of the directories?
For example i have directories:
test
../test1... (1 Reply)
Hi Forum.
I'm trying to write a script that finds and deletes files that are older than 300 days. The script will read a table that contains the following 3 columns:
1st col: “Y” means sub-directory scan; "N" means no subdirectory scan
2nd col: sub-directory location
3rd col: File prefix... (7 Replies)
Hi,
Can some one help me how to exclude multiple directories using find command..
I have the directory structure below.
/a/a1/b1
/a/c1/c2
/a/d1/d2/d3
I want to exlcude a1,c2and d3 from the above using find,can some one suggest pls..
thanks in advance...
Use code tags... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have a line in my script to find the files changed in the last 24 hours. It is as below:
find /home/hary -type f -mtime -1
I now want to exclude a directory named "/home/hary/temp/cache" from the above find command. How do I add it to my script?
Any help is appreciated.
... (9 Replies)
Howdy
I have this directory structure ...
eep
eepaptest
eepfatest
eepgltest
eep.old
eeppoptest
ehf
ehfaptest
ehfgltest
ehp
ehpgltest
I want to find files in these directories, but I want to exclude eep, ehf & ehp.
Cany anyone help with the correct command ?? (1 Reply)