struggling with a Bash script

rblampain · 11-06-2007, 09:56 AM

I am trying to do a recursive "tree" of only some directories contained in a main directory.
I want to print the directory name, subdirectory name and filenames of files ending with .htm .html .php

Nothing I do work, can anyone show me the correct syntax?

Thank you for your help.

colucix · 11-06-2007, 10:25 AM

This may result in a very long statement, but one way can be

Code:

find . \( -wholename ./dir_one -o -wholename ./dir_two \) -prune -o -name "*.php" -print -o -name "*.html" -print -o -name "*.htm" -print

this uses the -prune action of find, to exclude from the search the directories enlighted in blue. If you want to add more directories to exclude, simply add them inside the parentheses with the same construct, as in

Code:

find . \( -wholename ./dir_one -o -wholename ./dir_two -o -wholename ./dir_three \) -prune -o -name "*.php" -print -o -name "*.html" -print -o -name "*.htm" -print

Please note that if the starting point is different from the current directory ".", you have to specify the whole name of the directories to exclude accordingly, for example

Code:

find test_dir -wholename test_dir/dir_one -prune -o -name "*.php" -print -o -name "*.html" -print -o -name "*.htm" -print

rblampain · 11-07-2007, 01:31 AM

Thank you very much, it worked first time.