topic Re: find command in Operating System - HP-UX

find command

Ragni Singh — Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:48:32 GMT

Hi guys,

how do I use the find command to find everything in a directory not containing a *.gz file. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Re: find command

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:52:18 GMT

Hi

ls -l | grep -v "*.gz" | more

Should do it.

Paula

Re: find command

James A. Donovan — Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:53:31 GMT

that's easy...cd to the directory in question and...

$ find . ! -name "*.gz"

Re: find command

Ragni Singh — Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:53:41 GMT

I need to run the find command to do this from the root directory on down. ls -l will just work on one dir. Thanks for your time.

Re: find command

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:55:57 GMT

Hi

ls -lR | grep -v "*.gz | more

will work for all dirs from root.

Paula

Re: find command

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:56:33 GMT

Hi
Ooops miss the second quote :-

ls -lR | grep -v "*.gz" | more

will work for all dirs from root.

Paula

Re: find command

Christopher McCray_1 — Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:57:01 GMT

Try this:

# find . \! -name *.gz -exec ls {} \;

just substute any other type of output command other than ls (lp,etc) for your results
Hope this helps

Chris

Re: find command

Kevin Wright — Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:57:44 GMT

find / ! -name "*.gz"

you can then use -exec to take action on what it finds..or | xargs rm
find / ! -name "*.gz" -exec rm {} \;