topic find command in Operating System - HP-UX

find command

Ridzuan Zakaria — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:40:24 GMT

Hi,

How do I use find command in the following situation:

- I want to search anything under /home/user expect /home/user/guest directory

Thanks.

Re: find command

Pete Randall — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:42:18 GMT

If you simply don't want to see any output from the /home/user/guest directory you can grep it out:

find /home/user |grep -v '/home/user/guest'

Pete

Re: find command

Rodney Hills — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:54:25 GMT

find /home/user ! -path "/home/user/guest"

HTH

-- Rod Hills

Re: find command

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:59:01 GMT

Hi,

you can also use the -prune option with the find command,

find /home/user -type f ! -path "/home/user/guest/*" -prune -print

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: find command

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:01:33 GMT

Hi,

If you want to include all files / directories, you can also use,

find /home/user ! -path "/home/user/guest/*" -print

Hope this helps.

regds

Re: find command

Ridzuan Zakaria — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:09:19 GMT

I use Sanjay's suggestion.

Thanks

Re: find command

Ridzuan Zakaria — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:10:15 GMT

I use Sanjay's suggestion