[NCLUG] Find, grep and other pointy instruments
Michael Dwyer
mdwyer at sixthdimension.com
Fri Apr 20 16:18:50 MDT 2001
I'm looking for a way to do this:
find / -print | grep "everything unless it is a directory which
includes a specific file"
Seeing as how regexp is a little too advanced to understand English,
does anyone have any tools that do this? I could probably write
something, but then I'd have to actually *think* and even *code*... and
I'm hoping someone else has already seen this.
For what it is worth, I expect it would be found in backup scripts.
That's what I hope to use it for. I need a way to mark directories so
I'm not backing up things that, well, don't need it. I can place
directo --
Hmmm...
find / -print | grep DO-NOT-BACKUP | sed -e 's/DO-NOT-BACKUP//' >
excludelist
This might work. Anyone have any other ideas or have seen this done
somehow?
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