How to traverse sub. dirs?

[Michael Steele_2]

Hi Everyone: From a starting point of /u5/data/ I would like traverse down each subdirectory without crossing into another. For example, /u5/data/tomx/*, but not /u5/data/megax/*. This would be similar to find /u5/data/* -xdev. ( But not. )

[Patrick Wallek]

I assume you are using find?

Are there certain sub-dirs you want to go into and others you don't?

Can you not just specify 'find /u5/data/tomx -name filename'

[Michael Steele_2]

Yes I am using find.
The problem is not limited to one file but 2.5 million files spread out across 49 sub dir.s under /u5/data. Each file requires that a command be run against it, i.e, find /u5/data/megax/* -xdev -exec chmod 777 {} \;

[Sajid_1]

hello,

may be this will:
# find /u5/data/megax -xdev -print

[Patrick Wallek]

If all files in a sub-dir need a chmod command run against them, why are you using find?

Why not something like:

# cd /u5/data
# chmod -R 777 megax

If you need the megax directory itself to be some other permissions then you could do:

# chmod 555 megax

[Michael Steele_2]

Sorry. I should have not used chmod 777 as an example. In reality the command is the following: find /u5/data -xdev -exec net perms {} \;

And again, chmod -R is a recursive command that will cross over into other sub directories.

The solution to this problem is not to cross over into another sub dir from a starting point of: /u5/data/megax, for example.

I.e, find /u5/data -(something here) -exech net perms {} \;

[Sajid_1]

hello,

try this:
# find /u5/data/tomx -xdev -exec chmod 777 {} \;

You can also try chmod -R

[Gregory Fruth]

It's still not clear to me why the previous poster's
suggestion wouldn't work.

If you are trying to exclude certain directories from
the find command, you can use the ! operator:

find /u5/data \! -path '/u5/data/megax*' -exec ...

You can use the () and -a operators if you have
multiple directories you want to exclude.

HTH

[Michael Steele_2]

find xdev only works on mount points. Substitute mount point with sub dir for the correct answer.

find /u5/data/!, etc. omits one of the 49 sub dir.s only.

[Sajid_1]

hello,

start your find from /u5/data/tomx and not /u5/data. this will search only that directory.