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# 1  
Old 11-04-2014
find Files in sub-directory
Hi

Just want to ask, Is it possible to find a file from a directory up to its sub-directories?

Thanks,
cmarzan
Last edited by cmarzan; 11-04-2014 at 12:06 AM.. Reason: typo
# 2  
Old 11-04-2014
Hello cmarzan,

Following may help you in same.

Code:
find -type d -name "test11"   ### For checking a directory
AND
find -type f -name "test12*"  ### For checking a file

Output will be as follows for both the commands.
Code:
1st command's output:
./XYZ/test11
 
2nd command's output:
./test123
./test1213
./test12121
./test1222
./test12
./test121
./XYZ/test121

Here above 1st command will check a directory named test11 in all the directories and sub directories of the present working directory, 2nd command will check all files which have names like test12 and etc in it's name to all sub directories too. If you want to limit the search in command you can use -maxdepth command with it. You can read man find for more information.

Hope this helps.


Thanks,
R. Singh
Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 11-04-2014 at 12:50 AM.. Reason: Adding comments to codes
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# 3  
Old 11-04-2014
Hi R.Singh,

Thanks for you effort.

Here is the example of the structure of a folder

MainFolder

Sub-folder_1
Sub-folder_1.1
Sub-folder_1.2

Sub-folder_2
Sub-folder_2.1
Sub-folder_2.2 file.cmd

I want to confirm if the file.cmd is existing. The structure above shows that the file.cmd is inside MainFolder/Sub-folder_2/Sub-folder_2.2

does your given command can put in a IF statement?

Code:
IF [ find -type d -name "MainFolder" ]
then 
mv file.cmd  MainFolder/Sub-folder_2/Sub-folder_2.1
else
exit 0

Many Thanks,
cmarzan
Last edited by cmarzan; 11-04-2014 at 02:05 AM.. Reason: typo errors
# 4  
Old 11-04-2014
Hello camarzan,

Following may help you in same. I have made similar kind of folder structure and checked it worked for me, please check and let me know if this helps.

Code:
cat check_file_status.ksh
value=`find -type f -name "file.cmd"`
if [[ -n "$value" ]]
then
        echo "File present in directory/sub directories." $value
else
        echo "file NOT found."
fi

Output will be as follows.
Code:
File present in directory/sub directories. ./MainFolder/Sub-folder_2.2/file.cmd

As in this case file is present so it is showing same only, you can use any script to execute in place of echo statement in the script.
EDIT: Also want to add my present working directory was /tmp where MainFolder is present so only it is showing in output as ./MainFolder/Sub-folder_2.2/file.cmd.

Thanks,
R. Singh
Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 11-04-2014 at 02:09 AM.. Reason: Added a comment about output for more clarification
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# 5  
Old 11-04-2014
I think you could do that with just one call to find

Code:
find /path/to/MainFolder -type f -name "file.cmd" -exec mv -t /path/to/MainFolder/Sub-folder_2/Sub-folder_2.1 {} \;

Test it first with:
Code:
find /path/to/MainFolder -type f -name "file.cmd" -exec ls -l {} \;

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# 6  
Old 11-04-2014
Hi R.Singh,

Many thanks to you...

below is the result of the command you gave to me

cat: check_file_status.ksh: No such file or directory
File present in directory/sub directories. ./grids/portfolio/OAP_TEST2_SCREEN.cmd

It says that the file is existing but can you help me to know what happen here?

cat: check_file_status.ksh: No such file or directory

Thanks,
cmarzan
# 7  
Old 11-04-2014
Hello cmarzan,

You need not to put cat check_file_status.ksh in the script as this was my script name which I have created for the task you have requested for, sorry for same.
For showing you the script's content I have done cat to that script. You can try with following on same.

Code:
value=`find -type f -name "file.cmd"`
if [[ -n "$value" ]]
then
        echo "File present in directory/sub directories." $value
else
        echo "file NOT found."
fi

Kindly let me know if you have any queries please.

Thanks,
R. Singh
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