topic Re: find in Operating System - HP-UX

find

Leonid Mishkind — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:19:36 GMT

Hello to all.
Does anyone knows of a way to make the find command not to descend to dirs under the path?

Re: find

Yogeeraj_1 — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:29:34 GMT

hi,

Normally, the find command recursively searches the directory tree for each specified Path parameter, seeking files that match a Boolean expression written using the terms given in the following text. When the find command is recursively descending directory structures, it will not descend into directories that are symbolically linked into the current hierarchy.

You can try:

ls -al |grep -i ""

hope this helps!

kind regards
yogeeraj

Re: find

RAC_1 — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:43:08 GMT

man find. look at -prune and -depth options.

find / ! -depth should work.

Re: find

Pelephone System — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:02:52 GMT

Thanks for responding . Though none of your suggestions help. ls | grep "find " does not grep the found files , the -depth / prune options still descend to other dirs.

Re: find

john korterman — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:59:07 GMT

Hi Mishkind,

try this:

$ find -path "./*" -prune

regards,
John K.

Re: find

Peter Godron — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:20:38 GMT

Hi,
please see answers in :

"Prevent find to go into subdirectories "

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1097204

Please also read:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33 on how to reward any useful answers given to your questions.

Re: find

Yogeeraj_1 — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:23:40 GMT

hi again,

suppose you want to find file "passwd"

SERVER2: >cd /etc/
SERVER2: etc>ll -al|grep "passwd"
-rw-r--r-- 1 root security 750 Jan 27 14:46 passwd
SERVER2: etc>

hope this helps!

kind regards
yogeeraj

Re: find

Peter Nikitka — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:18:37 GMT

Hi,

I assume you want to skip only some directories, not all. Modify my example, which will find all .xml-Files recursively but skip directories, whose names start with the letter 'e':

find . -name 'e*' -prune -o -name '*.xml' -print

mfG Peter

Re: find

Pelephone System — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:28:05 GMT

What I want to do is to fined home dirs ( /users FS ) that do not belong to enyone.
What I eventually did is :
find /users/* -nouser -type d | awk -F/ '{print $3}' | sort -u

Thanks to everyone for responding.

Re: find

Arturo Galbiati — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:43:48 GMT

Hi,
look at man find option prune

HTH,
Art