Problem in using "find"

sun_sun · 02-09-2008, 06:42 AM

hi,

i just got stuck using unix "find" command.

while searching, i want it to leave some directories.

there is -wholename "./dir" -prune for that, but it is not supported here.

i tried using :

find . -path "./dir" -size +1000k -prune -o -exec du -hs {}\;

doesn't seem to work.. this shows me file more than 1000k in directory "dir" as well, which i want to exclude the search in.

what am i doing wrong ?

thanks,
sun_sun

Tinkster · 02-09-2008, 12:37 PM

What is the final objective of the exercise? You want the sizes
of directories with less than 1000k content?

Cheers,
Tink

sun_sun · 02-09-2008, 02:06 PM

Final objective -

-dir1 contains dir2

-i want to search in dir1, but leave searching in dir2

-does size of file matter ? even if i search for +100k or +10000k.

-anyways, i wanted to search for directories > 100Mb ( -type d -size +100000k [ in dir1, leave searching in dir2] ---- this is ok, right ? )

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tinkster

What is the final objective of the exercise? You want the sizes
of directories with less than 1000k content?

Cheers,
Tink

Tinkster · 02-09-2008, 06:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sun_sun

Final objective -

-dir1 contains dir2

-i want to search in dir1, but leave searching in dir2

-does size of file matter ? even if i search for +100k or +10000k.

-anyways, i wanted to search for directories > 100Mb ( -type d -size +100000k [ in dir1, leave searching in dir2] ---- this is ok, right ? )

Not quite, because directories don't reflect the size
of their content. E.g. if dir1 has a file my_flick.mov
greater 100000 then the file will get listed, but the directory
that has the file won't.

You're better off to do a du -k on the directories, and then
filter out matching ones using awk or something ....

Code:

find . -type d -exec du -k {} \; |awk '$1 > 100000'

Cheers,
Tink

sun_sun · 02-10-2008, 01:38 AM

But the basic question was "how to find in dir1, and not search in dir2(which is contained in dir1) using find"....which still remains a worry to me ..

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tinkster

Not quite, because directories don't reflect the size
of their content. E.g. if dir1 has a file my_flick.mov
greater 100000 then the file will get listed, but the directory
that has the file won't.

You're better off to do a du -k on the directories, and then
filter out matching ones using awk or something ....

Code:

find . -type d -exec du -k {} \; |awk '$1 > 100000'

Cheers,
Tink

ghostdog74 · 02-10-2008, 01:52 AM

Code:

find -type d -name dir2 -prune -o -name "file" -type f -print