Hi there,
I'm new to shell scripting...
I've a situation like to find *.tar files under all subdirectories in "/home/abcd" and i used the below,
find /opt/lhapp ! -name "temp" | more
the above works fine.. Now don't need search few direcotries like "/home/abcd/aaaa", "/home/abcd/bbbb", "/home/abcd/cccc". So i need to exclude these directories. How??? any ideas???
Thanks in advance!
Vasanth.
I tried with the post using "-path" option but I'm using AIX and it says -path is not supported. Any other way???
find /home -type d \( -name aaaa -o -name bbbb -o -name cccc \) \
-prune -o -name '*.tar' -print
use the -prune option
you can also have look at -depth option
Hi Radoulov,
I tried with below,
find /home -type d \( -name aaaa -o -name bbbb -o -name cccc \) \ -prune -o -name '*.tar' -print
But getting missing conjunction error:confused:
can you correct me ?
The third backslash in my post is used to escape a newline.
If you don't have embedded newlines, remove it:
find /home -type d \( -name aaaa -o -name bbbb -o -name cccc \) -prune -o -name '*.tar' -print
Thanks Radoulov,
It works fine.. If i give only the directory.. for examaple here "abcd". But my situation is like "/abc/defh/abcd" means i just wanted to eliminate this complete path not all the abcd directory.
I tried giving the complete path but its not excluding ""/abc/defh/abcd" directory.
find /home -type d \( -name /abc/defh/abcd -o -name bbbb -o -name cccc \) -prune -o -name '*.tar' -print
I tried with single & double qoutes as well its not working.
Any option i can exclude entire path ?
I don't understand what you mean,
could you give an example of the desired output?
Hi,
It work fine.. But it's not excluding when i use the entire path for example(/home/cccc) and it works when i give only the directory as cccc. I just wanted to exclude the entire directory path and I need xxxx to be searched when it is not in(/home/cccc). Below is code the used which was not excluding the /home/cccc.
find /home -type d \( -name /home/cccc -o -name -o -name aaaa \) -prune -o -name '*.tar' -print
But it still searching under(/home/cccc) where it should exclude but aaaa got completely excluded.
Thanks in advance!
Vasanth
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Hi,
It work fine.. But it's not excluding when i use the entire path for example(/home/cccc) and it works when i give only the directory as cccc. I just wanted to exclude the entire directory path and I need xxxx to be searched when it is not in(/home/cccc). Below is code the used which was not excluding the /home/cccc.
find /home -type d \( -name /home/cccc -o -name -o -name aaaa \) -prune -o -name '*.tar' -print
But it still searching under(/home/cccc) where it should exclude but aaaa got completely excluded. Can anyone help with the above situation ???
Thanks in advance!
Vasanth
---------- Post updated at 11:50 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:30 PM ----------
Plz see the above conversation.
Thanks,
Vasanth.
I still don't understand. Consider the following example:
zsh-4.3.10[sysadmin]% find /home/sysadmin/t/abcd -name '*.tar'
/home/sysadmin/t/abcd/aaaa/pippo.tar
/home/sysadmin/t/abcd/bbbb/pippo.tar
/home/sysadmin/t/abcd/cccc/pippo.tar
/home/sysadmin/t/abcd/dddd/pippo.tar
/home/sysadmin/t/abcd/pippo.tar
If have .tar files in:
/home/sysadmin/t/abcd
/home/sysadmin/t/abcd/aaaa
/home/sysadmin/t/abcd/bbbb
/home/sysadmin/t/abcd/cccc
/home/sysadmin/t/abcd/dddd
The following command skips any aaaa, bbbb and cccc directory under /home/sysadmin/t/abcd/:
zsh-4.3.10[sysadmin]% find /home/sysadmin/t/abcd -type d \( -name aaaa -o -name bbbb -o -name cccc \) -prune -o -name '*.tar' -print
/home/sysadmin/t/abcd/dddd/pippo.tar
/home/sysadmin/t/abcd/pippo.tar
I suppose that skipping, for example, /home/sysadmin/t/abcd/dddd/aaaa could be an issue for you, but your problem seems to be different, could you please clarify providing an example (files that should/shouldn't be included in the output)?
Hi Radoulov,
Exactly what you guessed below is right!
Thanks for your help Radoulov!
I used 2 separate find command for source and copybook :
/home/apps/**/source
where it always searches in the test source/copybook.Sorry for the unwanted thought of mine 
Anyways below is my requirement. Hope you will understand. Thanks again.
My requirement :
my test environment path example: /home/apps/xx/source where xx is the test region.
my production path example : /home/apps/source
Now i need to find like :
find /home/apps -name "1234"
The above will search for the 1234 under /home/apps.. here i need to skip the /home/apps/source which was production and i need to search on all test region. If i skip "source" directory in the below code it will skip both production and test regions source directory well where my requirement is it should not skip the test environment.
find /home -type d \( -name /home/apps -o -name -o -name xxxx \) -prune -o -name '*.tar' -print
So to skip the production directory I used the complete path /home/apps which was ignored in my code. Hope you understand my situation now.
-Vasanth
You could try something like this:
perl -MFile::Find -le'
BEGIN {
$skip = {
"/home/apps/source" => 1,
};
$pat = qr/\.tar$/;
}
find {
wanted => sub {
$File::Find::prune = 1 and return
if exists $skip->{$File::Find::dir};
/$pat/o or return;
print $File::Find::name;
}
}, shift
' /home/apps
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The code is easily extensible, you could skip more directories just by adding them to the hash skip in the BEGIN block:
$skip = {
"/home/apps/source" => 1,
"/dir/2" => 1,
"/dir/3/1" => 1,
};
Hi, I think I have a similar problem.
find /storage/cas/extracts/ -name "usage_1_*" -type f -mtime +7
I want to limit the search to /storage/cas/extracts only.
Thanks in advance!
find /storage/cas/extracts/. ! -name . -prune -name 'usage_1_*' -type f -mtime +7
Or just use the maxdepth option if it's available:
find /storage/cas/extracts -maxdepth 1 -name 'usage_1_*' -type f -mtime +7
wow thanks radoulov! it works!