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I want to list all the subdirectories of /tmp, including those starting with a dot, so I have come up with the following command:

find \
/tmp/* /tmp/.* \
-path /tmp/.. -prune -o \
-path /tmp/. -prune -o \
-type d -print

Thet's the best I've managed, but it's very long-winded. Surely there's an easier way to do it?

Thanks.

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Maybe...

Submitted by georgos on Tue, 2006-11-28 14:36.

If I execute the command you posted I get exactly the same results as if I just execute

find /tmp/ -type d

Ok, except that /tmp itself is not included in the list created by your command.

BTW,
"I want to list all the subdirectories of /tmp, including those starting with a dot"
That's exactly what find does. No need for any special fiddling.

Cheers, Georg

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Maybe...

Submitted by tongro on Tue, 2006-11-28 17:45.

OK, thanks, but how can I exclude /tmp without resorting to the -prune stuff? I need it exact because I will be piping the list to another program. Maybe I'm just stuck with what I have.

Tony.

$world=~s/war/peace/g;

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Not that simple then...

Submitted by georgos on Thu, 2006-11-30 10:22.

Hi Tony

find /tmp -type d | sed 1d

The 'sed' stuff deletes the first line (and the start directory /tmp always comes first).

This would do it too:

find /tmp/ -type d -and -not -path /tmp/

Well, don't know if that's any simpler than the find command you posted. I guess that's just a matter of taste whichever you prefer. The last one is almost human readable though ;-).

Cheers, Georg

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Not that simple then...

Submitted by tongro on Thu, 2006-11-30 15:29.

That's certainly simpler, thanks.

However, I've since rewritten the script in Perl, so the problem doesn't apply any more. Perl's File::Find module works very well.

Tony.

$world=~s/war/peace/g;

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