I've been trying to figure out how to use find(1) to search for specific files...
According to the man page:
so I should be able to supply several paths with the '-f' parameter, but I should also be able to use:
so I want to search from '.' but exclude tmp, which I thought I should be able to do using
but can't stumble upon the correct syntax. Is what I'm trying to do possible?
There is an example of the NOT operator:
According to the man page:
Code:
SYNOPSIS
find [-H | -L | -P] [-EXdsx] [-f path] path ... [expression]
find [-H | -L | -P] [-EXdsx] -f path [path ...] [expression]
so I should be able to supply several paths with the '-f' parameter, but I should also be able to use:
Code:
OPERATORS
The primaries may be combined using the following operators. The opera-
tors are listed in order of decreasing precedence.
( expression )
This evaluates to true if the parenthesized expression evaluates
to true.
! expression
-not expression
This is the unary NOT operator. It evaluates to true if the
expression is false.
so I want to search from '.' but exclude tmp, which I thought I should be able to do using
-f . !tmp
but can't stumble upon the correct syntax. Is what I'm trying to do possible?
There is an example of the NOT operator:
Code:
find / \! -name "*.c" -print
Print out a list of all the files whose names do not end in .c.