find command to find directories and sym links to directories

[kenny chia]

Hi
For HPUX how should I use the find command to look for
1) Directories
and
2) Symbolic links to directories. Sym links to files I do not want

In Linux I use
find ! -type f ! -xtype f
but xtype does not work in HPUX

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

the man page is pretty helpful here.

find -type f
| xargs 555
Finds all files actually files permissions 555.

HP-UX man pages are actually a little better than Linux man pages, IMO

SEP

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Kenny:

The standard HP-UX 'find' can easily be used for finding directories (question-1):

# find /path -type d -print

To find symbolic links to directories, but not symbolic links to files, I'd use Perl:

# perl -MFile::Find -MCwd=realpath -le 'find(sub{print $File::Find::name if -l $_ && -d realpath($_)},@ARGV)' /path

Regards!

...JRF...

[Dennis Handly]

>1) Directories

find path -type d

>2) Symbolic links to directories.

This requires two steps in the shell:
find path -type l -exec check_sym_link +

Then write the check_sym_link script:

for file in "$@"; do
ll -Ld $file | grep -q "^d" && echo $file
done

(I'm not sure if [ -d $file ] would work too?)

>SEP: find -type f | xargs 555

You mean:
find -type f -perm 555 ?

[Steven Schweda]

> In Linux I use
> find ! -type f ! -xtype f
> but xtype does not work in HPUX

If you really like the "find" in GNU/Linux,
you could try (building and) using that
"find" on HP-UX. The source code is
available:

http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/

[Deepak Kr]

For DIR

find /path -type d -name " " ...

For Link

find /path -type l -name " " ....

HP-UX find is equally stronger!!!

[Steven Schweda]

> For Link
>
> find /path -type l -name " " ....

I must be missing something. Can you
demonstrate that this works? (Why
'-name " " ....'? What's "...."?)

> 2) Symbolic links to directories. Sym
> links to files I do not want

You did read this, right?

[Dennis Handly]

>Kumar Deepak: HP-UX find is equally stronger!

You are confusing "stronger" with the saying: standard is better than better. :-)

[Dennis Handly]

>ME: (I'm not sure if [ -d $file ] would work too?)

Yes that works:
for file in "$@"; do
[ -d "$file" ] && echo "$file"
done

[kenny chia]

Hi all
I manage to find a single line solution

# find -type l -o -type d | perl -e 'while(){chomp();print "$_\n" if -d;}'

[Rasheed Tamton]

Hi,

find /var/tmp -follow -type d -exec ll -d {} +|grep ^l

Rgds.

[Dennis Handly]

>Rasheed: find /var/tmp -follow -type d -exec ll -d {} + | grep ^l

Clever. Except if the symlink points to some gigantic directory tree that you don't want to scan, you'll waste time there.