find command

[Ragni Singh]

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.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

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

Should do it.

Paula

[James A. Donovan · Accepted solution]

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

$ find . ! -name "*.gz"

[Ragni Singh]

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.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

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


will work for all dirs from root.

Paula

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi
Ooops miss the second quote :-


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


will work for all dirs from root.

Paula

[Christopher McCray_1]

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

[Kevin Wright]

find / ! -name "*.gz"

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