I want to create a concatenated file which appends all files except those which end in .XYZ from a directory (recursing into subdirectories).
I tried this but it does not work:
find . -type f | grep -v *.XYZ -exec cat {} \; > /tmp/alldata.txt
This works but fails to exclude files ending in ".XYZ":
find . -type f -exec cat {} \; > /tmp/alldata.txt
find . -type f -not -name "*.XYZ" -exec cat {} \; > /tmp/alldata.txt
More recent versions of gnu find include -not which negates the next argument. In this case, you can combine that with the -name argument to get what you want without invoking grep -v.
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I want to get file names of files in /bin that contain letter 'm' using find command not beeing in /bin.
When /bin is my working directory it works fine but when I add /bin as requirement in path it returns nothing independently of current directory.
Works:
find -type f -name "*m*" -exec basename {} \;
Doesn't:
find -type f -name "*m*" -path "/bin/*" -exec basename {} \;
I suspect you don't want to use -path /bin… but just
find /bin -type f -name "*m*" -exec basename {} \;
The first argument to find is the path to search in. The -path flag is a pattern matching feature that checks if the pattern matches the full path of the found name.
In fact, if you had tried this command on a BSD find such as comes with macOS, it won't even let you try one of your commands, because you didn't include the path.
find -type f … # not ok
find . -type f … # ok
find /bin -type f … # ok
This will work.
find /bin/* -type f -name "*m*" -exec basename {} \;
It is equivalent to going to /bin folder and executing
find -type f -name "*m*" -exec basename {} \;
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 need to place a command that will search for all files in the current directory as well as in its sub-directories - ending by ~, and/or all files that start or end by #. The command line will show and erase all files found. Only one command is allowed: no ’;’ or ’&&’ or other shenanigans.
here is my command:
find . -name "#*" -o -name "*#" -o -name "*~" -print -delete
but it erases only the files ending in ~
You forgot to enclose the conditions with parenthesis (). This means that only the last condition will trigger the actions -print and -delete.
The default is and -a, which would not require the parenthesis, that's why most find commands such as find -type f -name "pattern" -print works without parenthesis.
You should try:
find . \( -name "#*" -o -name "*#" -o -name "*~" \) -print -delete
How about -print0 primary in conjunction with xargs -0'' like this .
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm
za:temp za$ ls
file.txt file.txt~
za:temp za$ find . -name "*~" -print0 | xargs -0 rm
za:temp za$ ls
file.txt
Or with xargs -I {} plus your comand which does the same thing .
# xargs -I {} to capture the value of find
find . -iname *something* | xargs -I {} rm {}
edit : if you can't see the files that start with # using find . then the files have spaces within the name of the file(s) like # file.txt. you will need to find files with spaces with something like find . -name "* *" and then remove the spaces.
I want to find replace a patter1 into pattern2 only in certain files of my subdirectories. But exclude some subdirectories with replacement. What is wrong with this command?
find ./ -type f --exclude-dir='workspace' --exclude-dir='builds' \
-exec sed -i '' 's/foo/bar/g' {} \;
I don't see the option --exclude-dir in man find (I do in man grep, but you can't just borrow other command's options).
Try
find . -type f -not -path './workspace*' ...
I have a list of certain files that I see using the command below, but how can I copy those files listed into another folder, say ~/test?
find . -mtime 1 -exec du -hc {} +
Adding to Eric Jablow's answer, here is a possible solution (it worked for me - linux mint 14 /nadia)
find /path/to/search/ -type f -name "glob-to-find-files" | xargs cp -t /target/path/
You can refer to "How can I use xargs to copy files that have spaces and quotes in their names?" as well.
Actually, you can process the find command output in a copy command in two ways:
If the find command's output doesn't contain any space, i.e if the filename doesn't contain a space in it, then you can use:
Syntax:
find <Path> <Conditions> | xargs cp -t <copy file path>
Example:
find -mtime -1 -type f | xargs cp -t inner/
But our production data files might contain spaces, so most of time this command is effective:
Syntax:
find <path> <condition> -exec cp '{}' <copy path> \;
Example
find -mtime -1 -type f -exec cp '{}' inner/ \;
In the second example, the last part, the semi-colon is also considered as part of the find command, and should be escaped before pressing Enter. Otherwise you will get an error something like:
find: missing argument to `-exec'
find /PATH/TO/YOUR/FILES -name NAME.EXT -exec cp -rfp {} /DST_DIR \;
If you're using GNU find,
find . -mtime 1 -exec cp -t ~/test/ {} +
This works as well as piping the output into xargs while avoiding the pitfalls of doing so (it handles embedded spaces and newlines without having to use find ... -print0 | xargs -0 ...).
This is the best way for me:
cat filename.tsv |
while read FILENAME
do
sudo find /PATH_FROM/ -name "$FILENAME" -maxdepth 4 -exec cp '{}' /PATH_TO/ \; ;
done