Find command question

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,
I want to search in the log directory only. This log directory exists at mutiple places in my directory tree. I know that to exclude any directory we have option - prune but can we do the just opposite of it.. just check a single directory and exclude the rest.
thanks

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where=$(find /mydir -type d -name log)
find $where -type f
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Hello,

Since you want to check into only one directory 'log'
then
why dont you simply search in the log directory . :smiley:

find . -type d -iname "*log*" -exec bash -c 'find ${1} [find options] -exec [actions] {} \; ' _ {} \;

If you specify exactly what you have to find in the log file, then I can frame the exact command.

Regards,
Gaurav.

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Thank you very much, Jim. It solved my problem.

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Thank you! Gaurav. This is also helpful. but i am making a generic script where storing the directory names in a variable is suitable.

Regards,
Manoj