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How to search in specific directory using find?

Hi,
Is there any way to use find command and search only specific subdirectories in a directory.
for example

Code:

/home/d1
/home/d2
/home/d3

i want to search in the following directories

Code:

/home
/home/d1
/home/d2

i do not want the find command to search the /home/d3 directory.

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What about /home/d2/subfolder/...?

Is your system Linux?

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The general way of excluding (all!) d3 directories is

Code:

find /home -type d -name d3 -prune -o -print

GNU find (Linux) can be told to only prune the search at /home/d3

Code:

find /home -type d -path /home/d3 -prune -o -print

You can replace -print by other actions.

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The general way of excluding (all!) d3 directories is

Code:

find /home -type d -name d3 -prune -o -print

GNU find (Linux) can be told to only prune the search at /home/d3

Code:

find /home -type d -path /home/d3 -prune -o -print

You can replace -print by other actions.

I want to search for a particular file say f1 in
/home
/home/d1
/home/d2

excluding /home/d3

In the above example you gave, where should i specify the filename?

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Since you apparently don't want recursion, that's simpler without find...

Code:

FILES=$(ls /home/d1/f1 /home/d2/f1 /home/f1)

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Regarding find, the 1st part up to the -o is the exclusion. So you must put your tests to the 2nd part

Code:

find /home -type d -path /home/d3 -prune -o -type f -name f1 -print

Meaning: if type is file and if name is f1 then print.

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You need two finds in parentheses, one for /home -depth 1 and one for /home/d[12].

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