Commands by unixmonkey8556 (1)

  • find file/dir by excluding some unwanted dirs and filesystems

    Consider using this cmd when: 1. You are planning to traverse a big directory. 2. There is a subdir you don't want find to decend to. (entirely ignore) 3. You don't want find to decend to any mounted filesystems under this dir. * The -xdev flag tells find do not go to other filesystems. * -path ./junk_dir -prune is the pattern to ignore ./junk_dir entirely. * The rest is the typical search and print. To ignore multiple subdirs, you can just iterate the pattern, e.g. find . -path ./junk1 -prune -o -path ./junk2 -prune ... If you do want to include other filesystems, then remove -xdev flag. If you want to search files, then change -type d to -type f.


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    find . -xdev -path ./junk_dir -prune -o -type d -name "dir_name" -a -print
    unixmonkey8556 · 2011-01-16 10:08:10 0

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