Re: Find Question

On 2009-01-19, George <me@xxxxxx> wrote:

I want to write a find command that looks only in certain subdirectories
of a certain directory - say we have foo as the top-level directory and
foo1, foo2 as subdirectories. I want my command to look into files in foo
and foo1, but not foo2.

If I write (when the current directory is foo) find . -type f -prune this
will not look in foo1, which is something I want to happen.

A look at the documentation didn't produce any results.

Look into the '-path' variable. Maybe '--path'

Can't remember the exact syntax and don't have my notes here. But try
something like this:

find foo/ -path 'foo1' -type f -iname "myfile*" ...

That would start looking in foo, for any subdir foo1, containing files
starting with "myfile", case insensitive.


Hope that might set you on the right track.

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