How to find and get a file in an entire directory with an excluded directory specified

BudiKusasi · 02-28-2018, 09:52 PM

How to get a file 'zlib.h' in an entire directory with an excluded directory specified which lives under that starting directory by using find command, as it failed on:

Code:

$  find . -name 'zlib.h' -a -ipath 'CHROME.TMP' -prune -o -print

it'll just list entirely up

pan64 · 03-01-2018, 12:37 AM

see man find, and check all the options you specified. How should one use them, why are they there (in your command)?

Stéphane Ascoët · 03-01-2018, 03:54 AM

I don't understand the situation, could you explain it better?

syg00 · 03-01-2018, 04:13 AM

Use locate.

KISS.

Turbocapitalist · 03-01-2018, 06:30 AM

Perhaps you meant like this?

Code:

find . -ipath '*CHROME.TMP' -prune -o -name 'zlib.h' -print

The -ipath option matches the whole path, so you might need an asterisk to match an arbitrarily long beginning to the path name. After that it is a matter of remembering the precedence in boolean logic, specifically OR versus AND. You can leave out the -a options because if there is no -o then -a is assumed.

BudiKusasi · 03-01-2018, 09:29 AM

EXCELLENT ! That's what is the eternal virtue out of sincere help.