There is a directory with other subdirs. In some of them there is ABC directory. I need to find all read-only files but not whose parent directory is ABC (so searching recursivly bun not under ABC). With read-only case I have no problem but how to denote the last fact in find command?

find -perm ugo=r -o {parent dir is not ABC}

I don't think you can actually ask for this in find.

But I would rather use -path */*/<an general expression which avoid ABC> if it is possible.
Hope this helps!

Cheers
Andree

Yea, it helped but not 100%:-) I'm not a guru in regular expressions that find accepts and vi's ones are not appliable fully in the case.

How can I specify a path that doesn't contain directory ABC? How operator NOT works here? Do I understand right that the pattern in -path clause is applied to the full path of a file as if it were printed by ls command? If so how should I create a pattern to describe occurence of a word ABC in any place of file full path ?

Let's for example assume I have in my current dir the following structure:

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./a.txt
./b.txt
./ABC/c.txt
/ABC/ABC/d.txt
/otherdir/f.txt


I need only a, b and f files.


Thanks in advance

Try

find -perm ugo=r -o | grep -v ABC

I can't test it here, in the office we use WinNT.