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Hello all,

I need to print directories using find command. The directories names contain date in the format YYYYMMDD or the name of directory is only the date format. I want print directories, which doesn't start with this date.

E.g I have dirs like

Code:

foo20120101
foo20120101foo
20120101foo
20120101

I want to print

Code:

foo20120101
foo20120101foo

And what if I want to print all dirs but not the one which name is only from date?
the output shoul be like:

Code:

foo20120101
foo20120101foo
20120101foo

Thank you very much for your time and help.

Code:

find /path/to/directory/tree -type d |  grep '.*20120101.*' | grep -v -F './20120101$'

I am not sure exactly what you asked, so give this a whirl. IF it has a problem get back to us. This finds any directory with 20120101 anywhere in the name in then removes those that end EXACTLY with 20120101.

two sources of confusion: -
you say that you don't want directories that start with 20120101 and then show one in your desired output.
The other problem is that I can't tell if this is for all dates or just 20120101