find

[Leonid Mishkind]

Hello to all.
Does anyone knows of a way to make the find command not to descend to dirs under the path?

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

Normally, the find command recursively searches the directory tree for each specified Path parameter, seeking files that match a Boolean expression written using the terms given in the following text. When the find command is recursively descending directory structures, it will not descend into directories that are symbolically linked into the current hierarchy.

You can try:

ls -al |grep -i ""


hope this helps!

kind regards
yogeeraj

[RAC_1]

man find. look at -prune and -depth options.

find / ! -depth should work.

[Pelephone System]

Thanks for responding . Though none of your suggestions help. ls | grep "find " does not grep the found files , the -depth / prune options still descend to other dirs.

[john korterman]

Hi Mishkind,

try this:

$ find -path "./*" -prune



regards,
John K.

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
please see answers in :

"Prevent find to go into subdirectories "

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1097204

Please also read:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33 on how to reward any useful answers given to your questions.

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi again,

suppose you want to find file "passwd"

SERVER2: >cd /etc/
SERVER2: etc>ll -al|grep "passwd"
-rw-r--r-- 1 root security 750 Jan 27 14:46 passwd
SERVER2: etc>

hope this helps!

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

I assume you want to skip only some directories, not all. Modify my example, which will find all .xml-Files recursively but skip directories, whose names start with the letter 'e':

find . -name 'e*' -prune -o -name '*.xml' -print

mfG Peter

[Pelephone System]

What I want to do is to fined home dirs ( /users FS ) that do not belong to enyone.
What I eventually did is :
find /users/* -nouser -type d | awk -F/ '{print $3}' | sort -u

Thanks to everyone for responding.

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hi,
look at man find option prune

HTH,
Art