Saturday, September 27, 2008
Exclude directory from bash find command
Find command to search all the *.sh files starting from current directory.
$ find . -name "*.sh" -print
./dir1/dir11/help.sh
./dir1/sol.sh
./dir2/dir22/a.sh
./dir2/g.sh
./dir3/dert.sh
./dir3/tty.sh
Now to skip or exclude the directory './dir2' and all files and directories under it, use -prune option with bash find command.
$ find . -path './dir2' -prune -o -name "*.sh" -print
./dir1/dir11/help.sh
./dir1/sol.sh
./dir3/dert.sh
./dir3/tty.sh
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7 comments:
Perfect! Just what I was looking for. Thanks for the article.
I am searching using something like this in TONS of directories and many of them I don't have permission to view. May lines in my output look like:
find: /directory/somewhere: Permission denied
Is there any good way to exclude directories I don't have permission to view?
Great post. Thank you!
@Zebe, thanks for commenting.
@Matt, well, at present I am not finding a way for the same; did a lot and lot of google too, but no luck. Even I am very curious to know about this. Please let me know if you find a way for the same.
Only one thing I can think of is to 2> the err to /dev/null, which obourse is not the query you are asking :-)
Thanks for commenting. Keep in touch.
// Jadu
add -perm -a+r -perm /a+w ! -perm /a+x to find command will do the trick
"add -perm -a+r -perm /a+w ! -perm /a+x to find will do the trick."
Thanks, that helped a lot to me!
@RAM - that is exacly what was needed, thanks :)
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