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dear all,
i have a rather simple question that I cannot seem to find an answer to..
i have a directory with 8 base directories and 30 something subdirectories.. in each subdirectory I have aloccated base files (empty files) that I can refer to from find.. these base files will then have three or four files created with the same name with the suffix .doc-{1,2,3,4} ... the base file stays empty. when I run a find on the directory I find .doc files or empty files to create doc files from.. my question is when I need to find empty files that have no other files attached to them how would I filter out the empty files that have .doc files attatched to them using find.. ..
moxxx68

to get empty doc files ....

Code:

find . -name *.doc -type f -size 0

Sorry , i have not understood your question fully.

thats O.K...
thanx anyway

moxxx68, I believe that I understand the question. But I don't think you can do that with find alone. find can't really select a file based on the presense or absense of similiarly named files co-residing in the same directory. You would need to write a script for this.

here is a script that I worked on last night for about an hour without any luck..
the -name option won't accept the vars that I give it..
#!/bin/bash
#_filter



i=`find . -type f -name "*.doc*" -print | xargs sed -e 's/\.\/.*\///' -e 's/\.\///'`
file=${i//.doc-1/}
if [ $file -f ] then
find $1 -type f ! -name "$file" ! -name "$i" -print
fi

..... could use some help
thanx moxxx68

If I understand completely, this should do it...

Code:

#! /usr/bin/ksh
find . -name \*.doc -print | while read docfile ; do
      dir=${docfile%/*}
      file=${docfile##*/}
      cd $dir
      ls ${file}-* >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo $file in $dir
      cd -
done
exit 0

opps..I had a typo...fixed now

perderabo..
worked great.. I just have to adjust a few things to try and get the opposite too.
thanx moxxx68.....