Find /Dir

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Here is the problem i now have.

i have a list of directories like this

W9888
W9848
W9752
W9748
W9683
W9680
W9674
W9558
W9366

i need to scan through those directories and bring back a similar list, except only of the directories not containing subdirectories called "ebooks" or "e*" I had some help with this earlier and resolved all other issues i was having except for this one.

the list i get back could really only be one line less, but i am doing this over thousands of files.

here is what i have tried so far but it does not work.

find ./$line -maxdepth 1 -type d \! -name "e*" > noebook.txt

i'm running leopard

2 
#!/bin/ksh
while read dir
do
     set -A arr  $(find $dir -type d -name 'e*' )
     if [[ ${#arr} -eq 0 ]] ; then
             echo $dir
     fi
done < dirfile > newdirfile
3

is there anyway to do this in bash. simply using it as is doesn't seem to work and i need to apend it to the end of an already working script.

Thanks

4

Does the subdirectory exist directly under the directory you are examining, or could it be nested arbitrarily deeply?

#!/bin/sh

find whatever you are already finding |
while read dir; do
  find $dir -type d -name 'e*' | grep . && continue
  echo "$dir"
done
5

I have done it! Thankyou era and Jim Mcnamara. Your help is appreciated. :slight_smile: