From: Bob Booth - UIUC (booth@UIUC.EDU)
Date: Tue Sep 09 2003 - 15:08:35 EDT
For added protection, you can also use -xdev, which will prevent find from
moving into other filesystems.
bob
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 02:34:47PM -0400, cbaker@GOODYEAR.COM wrote:
> You do NOT want to do the "/someplace/.*" !!!! But rather
> "/someplace/.[a-z,A-Z,0-9]*" or something of that nature.
>
> WHY?
>
> Because using a "/someplace/.*" in a find command will traverse UP to "/"
> since it will find "/someplace/.." (TWO DOTS). This can be VERY
> DANGEROUS if you are doing, say a find and an rm (remote) of what you
> found. You could end up removing files in far distant directories or even
> other filesystems.
>
> With the "[a-z]" or "[0-z]" that Mr. Thompson put forth, you are
> restricting the search to any character after the first "." but not another
> "."
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Christopher M. Baker
> Senior Technical Support Analyst
> DSE/TCO
> Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
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> the point of using "something/*" is to avoid the command line overflow.
> this makes the shell not escaping it.
> as I am sure you know this yourself, I am wondering if we´re talking about
> the same
>
> in any case its true that files starting with a dot wont be found. one
> would have to use "/somewhere/*" "/somewhere/.*"
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Thompson [mailto:bill.thompson@GOODYEAR.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 1:51 PM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: Shell script: find
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> "/some/path/*" is fine EXCEPT it will not find files that start with a
> period (e.g.: ".profile") and it could overflow the command line buffer if
> there are lots of files in the directory. (just like "ls -l *" can overflow
> the command line buffer).
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> Bill Thompson
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> > > find /usr/lpp/* -prune
> > > find /usr/lpp/.[0-z]* /usr/lpp/* -prune
> > >Note that either of these could fail if you have too many files in
> > >your
> > path.
> >
> > it should be fine to use "/some/path/*" etc., shouldnt it? sorry, no
> > time to test
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill Thompson [mailto:bill.thompson@GOODYEAR.COM]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 12:50 PM
> > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> > Subject: Re: Shell script: find
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> >
> > Rad,
> >
> > Let's say you were looking for all the stuff in /usr/lpp, but none of
> > the subdirectories. You could use the following notation:
> >
> > find /usr/lpp/* -prune
> >
> > If you wanted to find the "hidden" files as well (those starting with
> > a dot), this should work:
> >
> > find /usr/lpp/.[0-z]* /usr/lpp/* -prune
> >
> > Note that either of these could fail if you have too many files in
> > your path.
> >
> > Another way to do it without using find:
> >
> > for FILE in $(ls /usr/lpp); do
> > echo /usr/lpp/$FILE
> > done
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Bill Thompson
> > Sr UNIX Systems Administrator
> > The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rioveros, Dario C." <riovdac@RSDEVT.INSULAR.COM.PH>
> > Newsgroups: bit.listserv.aix-l
> > To: <aix-l@Princeton.EDU>
> > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 11:44 PM
> > Subject: Shell script: find
> >
> > > Hi AIX people,
> > >
> > > I need a little help here. how can I find the files only on
> > > the
> > indicated PATH
> > > and will not search on its subdirectories. (non-recursive find).
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > > rad
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