find but ignore one or two directories.

[f. halili]

Hello,

Can find be use in a script to search for a file, ( let's say core ) and yet ignore one or two directories you do not want to search.

I tried gfind, but what happens is that it shows all files with the core sting on them.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

f. halili

[Sagar Sirdesai]

Hi

For example you need to find core in /usr in FS but ignore /usr/local and /usr/etc we can use the below find command


find /usr -xdev -name "core" -path \(/usr/local -o /usr/etc\) -prune -o -print


Sagar

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

you can exclude with 'grep -v', see also 'man grep'.

find . -type f -name core|grep -v

Well, of course it exludes every path with the same string , you have to know if this could be ...

HTH
Volkmar

[f. halili]

Hello Sagar,

I tried the syntax you gave but got the following below.

# /usr/bin/find /scratch -xdev -name "core" -path \(/scratch/TEMP -o /scratch/TEMP1\) -prune -o -print
find: bad option /scratch/TEMP1)


Thanks,
f. halili

[f. halili]

Hello Volkmar,

You suggeestion works but it will still go through the directories I want to ignore.

I want to skip some directories as they are huge, so don't want to go through them.


Thanks,
f. halili

[V. Nyga]

Hi again,

then check the 'find' option '-prune':
-prune: If the current entry is a directory, cause find to skip that directory.

or better:

find . ! -path ./

HTH
Volkmar

[V. Nyga]

Sorry,

-prune avoids from search in any sub-directory.

-path works without the '!':
find . -name core -path

V.

[V. Nyga]

Sorry, forget my last replies - it doesn't work like shown in man pages ...

[Sagar Sirdesai]

Please check if this works

find /usr -xdev -name "core" -path /usr/local -o -print -path /usr/etc -prune -o -print

Sagar

[V. Nyga]

Tested:

find . ! -path ./ -only|grep core

'!' semms to not work with option '-name'

V.

[sujit kumar singh · Accepted solution]

Hi,


Please have a look at the belows, This might be helpful.

i have the fstab file at the following locations on my system.

# find / -name fstab
/etc/fstab
/usr/newconfig/etc/fstab
/var/sujit/etc/fstab
/var/sujit/etc/etc/fstab
# find / \( ! -path "/etc/*" \) -name fstab
/usr/newconfig/etc/fstab
/var/sujit/etc/fstab
/var/sujit/etc/etc/fstab
# find / \( ! -path "/etc/*" \) -a \( ! -path "/var/*" \) -name fstab
/usr/newconfig/etc/fstab
# find / \( ! -path "/etc/*" \) -a \( ! -path "/usr/*" \) -name fstab
/var/sujit/etc/fstab
/var/sujit/etc/etc/fstab
# find / -name fstab
/etc/fstab
/usr/newconfig/etc/fstab
/var/sujit/etc/fstab
/var/sujit/etc/etc/fstab


Hope this is helpful.


Regards
Sujit

[f. halili]

THANKS!

[Dennis Handly]

You are not going to be successful looking at the man page for -prune, you need an example:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1303248
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1276654