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Derek Downey
Asked: 2010-12-16 08:22:32 +0800 CST

List directories without a specific folder

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I need some help constructing a directory listing using 'find'?

An example directory structure looks something like this:

/ (root)
 - /foo
   - /folderA
   - /folderB
 - /bar
   - /folderA
     -/search
   - /folderB

What I want to find is a list of 'folderA' or 'folderB' directories that do NOT have a 'search' folder. Requested output would be:

/foo/folderA
/foo/folderB
/bar/folderB

I am assuming this can be accomplished with 'find' on a *nix system, but am pretty green with the command. All help is appreciated.

SOLVED: Thank you Khaled for your response leading me in the right direction. Needed a slight modification to include the -E option, but the final solution looked like this:

find -E . -regex '.*(folderA|folderB)' -type d '!' -exec test -d '{}/search' ';' -print

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can find command like:

    $ find . -regex ".*folder\(A\|B\)" -type d '!' -exec test -d '{}/search' ';' -print
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