I have directory tree structure which looks like this
/app/bad/upd /app/pass/upd /app/bad/upd /app/warn/upd
I want to build a find command which can list all the files in every sub-directory named upd.
Currently I list it individually
find /app/bad/upd -type f -name "*${FILE_NAME}*"
This might be what you look for:
find /app -type d -name upd -exec ls -l {} +
or perhaps:
find /tmp/* -type d -name upd -exec sh -c "ls -l {}/*${FILE_NAME}* 2>/dev/null" sh {} \;
If the upd directory is always in the 2nd directory down, you could simply do:
ls /app/*/upd
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I have a script which has the following command. I am trying to edit this in such a way that it only searches the files in the directory of the path without going in the subdirectories. That is not recursive search
find {Path} -name "cor*" -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
Example: The command should give cor123.log only and not cor456.log. Currently it gives both
<Path>
..cor123.log
<directory>
..cor456.log
I tried using -maxdepth but it's not supported in AIX. -prune and -depth didn't help either.
Will appreciate any help. Thanks
You can use
find . -name . -o -prune
to find files and directories non-recursively.
So in your case this one will work:
find . -name . -o -prune -name 'cor*' -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
Do you need find for selecting files only?
When you know that all files starting with cor are regula files, you can use
ls -l ${Path}/cor*
or
ls -l ${Path}/cor*.log
When you need the -type f, you can try to filter the results.
The filename can not have a /, so remove everything with an / after the Path.
We do not know the last char of ${Path}. It can be /, which will make the grep -Ev "${Path}/.*/" filter useless. After the Path at least one character is needed before looking for the next /.
find "${Path}" -name "cor*" -type f 2>/dev/null| grep -Ev "${Path}..*/" | xargs -ls
Late answer but may save some. In aix
find /some/directory/* -prune -type f -name *.log
For instance make your path have the last forward slash with a wildcard then -prune
/*
find /some/directory/* -prune -name "cor*" -type f -exec ls -l {} \
Tested.
I had a directory with many files and sub-directories. To move only the sub-directories, I just learned you can use:
ls -d BASEDIR/*/ | xargs -n1 -I% mv % TARGETDIR/
I use the following:
$ mv ./*/ DirToMoveTo
For example:
Say I wanted to move all directories with "Old" in the name to a folder called "Old_Dirs" on /data.
The command would look like this:
mv ./*Old*/ /data/
Why not use find?
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec mv '{}' /tmp \;
-maxdepth 1 makes sure find won't go deeper than current directory
-type d tells find to only find directories
-exec execute a command with the result of the find referenced by {}
In my opinion a cleaner solution and it also works better then using xargs when you have files with white space or tabs in them.
With a file structure like this:
/dir2move2
/dir
/subdir1
/subdir2
index.js
To move only the sub directories and not the files you could just do:
mv ./dir/*/ ./dir2move2
Possible solution:
find BASEDIR/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -exec mv '{}' TARGETDIR \;
you can simply use the same command for moving a file but put a slash after the name of the subdirectory
sudo mv */ path/to/destination
sudo mv subdir/ path/to/subdirectory
My dir sturcture that looks like
x
/log
/bin
I am giving this command from dir- x/bin
find ../log -type f -name \*.log -mtime +90 -exec ls -l {} \;
(to find and display list of files older than 90 days.) and it doesn't display anything.
Whereas if i execute same command in dir- x/log
find . -type f -name \*.log -mtime +90 -exec ls -l {} \;
it gives me a list of files older than 90 days.
Can you please help?
Recall that paths are relative.
If you have a dir sturcture that looks like
x
/log
/bin
AND your're in x/bin then you need to give the relative path to x/log, ie
pwd
x/bin
find ../x/log -type f -name \*.log -mtime +90 -exec ls -l {} \;
I hope this helps.
Two suggestions.
First, escape the * using \*. If you have any log files in current dir, they will get expanded before the command is executed.
Second, I think you mean find ../x/log ...?
I'd like to create a tar file of all the files in a directory minus sub-directory's in that directory and place that tar file in one of the sub-directory's. For example, I have several .txt files in /test and also another directory in /test called ArchivedFiles. I'd like to tell the tar command to archive all of the .txt files and place it in /test/ArchivedFiles.
How do I go about doing this?
tar cf test/foo/test.tar -- `find test -maxdepth 1 -name '*.txt' -type f`
I think that should do what you want.
An option which will not work due to the age of your tar command is:
find test -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.txt' -print0 | tar -cf test/foo/test.tar --null --files-from -
You are having problems, so you can try the following commands:
tar cf test/foo/test.tar `find test -maxdepth 1 -name '*.txt' -type f`
echo tar cf test/foo/test.tar `find test -maxdepth 1 -name '*.txt' -type f`
tar c f test/foo/test.tar `find test -maxdepth 1 -name '*.txt' -type f`
find test -maxdepth 1 -name '*.txt' -type f
And pastebin the output so that we can see what is happening.
Given that find is very legacy as well, let us try the following:
tar cf test/foo/test.tar test/*.txt
The following command will work. It will place any subdirectories into the tar but it doesn't put the contents of those subdirectories into the tar. This means that if you put the tar into a subdir you won't have to worry about it putting itself inside itself inside itself...
For example, if you want to put all of the files which are in the current directory into a tar file called mytar.tar which is in a subdir called d1:
tar --no-recursion -cvf d1/mytar.tar *
I have hundreds of directories and files in one directory.
What is the best way deleting only directories (no matter if the directories have anything in it or not, just delete them all)
Currently I use ls -1 -d */, and record them in a file, and do sed, and then run it. It rather long way. I'm looking for better way deleting only directories
To delete all directories and subdirectories and leave only files in the working directory, I have found this concise command works for me:
rm -r */
It makes use of bash wildcard */ where star followed by slash will match only directories and subdirectories.
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d
then
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -exec rm -rf '{}' \;
To add an explanation:
find starts in the current directory due to . and stays within the current directory only with -maxdepth and -mindepth both set to 1. -type d tells find to only match on things that are directories.
find also has an -exec flag that can pass its results to another function, in this case rm. the '{}' \; is the way these results are passed. See this answer for a more complete explanation of what {} and \; do
First, run:
find /path -d -type d
to make sure the output looks sane, then:
find /path -d -type d -exec rm -rf '{}' \;
-type d looks only for directories, then -d makes sure to put child directories before the parent.
Simple way :-
rm -rf `ls -d */`
find command only (it support file deletion)\
find /path -depth -type d -delete
-type d looks only for directories, then -depth makes sure to put child directories before the parent. -delete removing filtered files/folders
In one line:
rm -R `ls -1 -d */`
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