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  • techjohnny@gmail.com
    #1

    Using Find with Regular Expressions.

    Can somebody help me form a expression with Find to locate -name, but
    exclude -name.

    For example, I have a directory that I would like to clean out ever so
    ofter, but don't want to touch 3 directories located in the same
    directory.

    Thanks,

    --TJ
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    • Toby A Inkster
      #2
      Re: [OT] Using Find with Regular Expressions.

      techjohnny@gmai l.com wrote:
      Can somebody help me form a expression with Find to locate -name, but
      exclude -name.
      This is off-topic in a PHP newsgroup. Personally, I'd just pipe the output
      from "find" through "grep -v".
      For example, I have a directory that I would like to clean out ever so
      ofter, but don't want to touch 3 directories located in the same
      directory.
      Why not just cd to the directory and "rm -f *"? Without the "-r", "rm"
      doesn't recurse into directories.

      --
      Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
      [Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
      [OS: Linux 2.6.17.14-mm-desktop-9mdvsmp, up 37 days, 17:56.]
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        • Baho Utot
          #3
          Re: [OT] Using Find with Regular Expressions.

          On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:43:43 +0000, Toby A Inkster wrote:
          techjohnny@gmai l.com wrote:
          [putolin]
          >
          >For example, I have a directory that I would like to clean out ever so
          >ofter, but don't want to touch 3 directories located in the same
          >directory.
          >
          Why not just cd to the directory and "rm -f *"? Without the "-r", "rm"
          doesn't recurse into directories.
          That would of course be too easy.

          --
          Tayo'y Mga Pinoy

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            • techjohnny@gmail.com
              #4
              Re: Using Find with Regular Expressions.

              On Mar 7, 2:51 pm, Baho Utot <baho-u...@invalid.or gwrote:
              On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:43:43 +0000, Toby A Inkster wrote:
              techjoh...@gmai l.com wrote:
              >
              [putolin]
              >
              >
              >
              For example, I have a directory that I would like to clean out ever so
              ofter, but don't want to touch 3 directories located in the same
              directory.
              >
              Why not just cd to the directory and "rm -f *"? Without the "-r", "rm"
              doesn't recurse into directories.
              >
              That would of course be too easy.
              >
              --
              Tayo'y Mga Pinoy
              Let's say there are 50 files and 50 directories, but I only want to
              keep 3 or 4 directory and 1 file, now I can do rm -rf to each file and
              directory, but I'm looking for a way to more automate this process.

              I think applying the +i directory attribute is a solution that works
              so far.

              Thanks,

              --TJ

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                • Baho Utot
                  #5
                  Re: Using Find with Regular Expressions.

                  On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:16:20 -0800, techjohnny@gmai l.com wrote:
                  On Mar 7, 2:51 pm, Baho Utot <baho-u...@invalid.or gwrote:
                  >On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:43:43 +0000, Toby A Inkster wrote:
                  techjoh...@gmai l.com wrote:
                  >>
                  >[putolin]
                  >>
                  >>
                  >>
                  >For example, I have a directory that I would like to clean out ever
                  >so ofter, but don't want to touch 3 directories located in the same
                  >directory.
                  >>
                  Why not just cd to the directory and "rm -f *"? Without the "-r",
                  "rm" doesn't recurse into directories.
                  >>
                  >That would of course be too easy.
                  >>
                  >--
                  >Tayo'y Mga Pinoy
                  >
                  Let's say there are 50 files and 50 directories, but I only want to keep
                  3 or 4 directory and 1 file, now I can do rm -rf to each file and
                  directory, but I'm looking for a way to more automate this process.
                  >
                  I think applying the +i directory attribute is a solution that works so
                  far.
                  >
                  Thanks,
                  >
                  --TJ
                  *nix or winwoes?

                  --
                  Tayo'y Mga Pinoy

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                    • techjohnny@gmail.com
                      #6
                      Re: Using Find with Regular Expressions.

                      On Mar 8, 5:34 am, Baho Utot <baho-u...@invalid.or gwrote:
                      On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:16:20 -0800, techjoh...@gmai l.com wrote:
                      On Mar 7, 2:51 pm, Baho Utot <baho-u...@invalid.or gwrote:
                      On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:43:43 +0000, Toby A Inkster wrote:
                      techjoh...@gmai l.com wrote:
                      >
                      [putolin]
                      >
                      For example, I have a directory that I would like to clean out ever
                      so ofter, but don't want to touch 3 directories located in the same
                      directory.
                      >
                      Why not just cd to the directory and "rm -f *"? Without the "-r",
                      "rm" doesn't recurse into directories.
                      >
                      That would of course be too easy.
                      >
                      --
                      Tayo'y Mga Pinoy
                      >
                      Let's say there are 50 files and 50 directories, but I only want to keep
                      3 or 4 directory and 1 file, now I can do rm -rf to each file and
                      directory, but I'm looking for a way to more automate this process.
                      >
                      I think applying the +i directory attribute is a solution that works so
                      far.
                      >
                      Thanks,
                      >
                      --TJ
                      >
                      *nix or winwoes?
                      >
                      --
                      Tayo'y Mga Pinoy
                      *nix

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