seraching folders for particular file

yanchina12 · 02-26-2009, 06:18 AM

Dear schneidz ,

Both the code you added with your recent post works but it prints all the folders name so it includes the folders which has a .cm file. .cm files is simple text file .

Your help is much appreciated!

Regards,
Yan

schneidz · 02-26-2009, 09:16 AM

i am stuck at work rite now with a win-xp machine so i am unable to test it but this is what i think it does:

Code:

for dir in u* # create a list of all dirs that begin with u
do
 if [ ! -f $dir/*.cm ] # if u*/*.cm does not exist
 then
  echo $dir # print out u*
 fi
done # go to next u*