Help With Find Syntax
I want to recursively search a directory and return files that end in .jpg or .gif but I can't seem to get the find syntax right. My basic command lines are: find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.gif -print OR find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.jpg -print Both of these work perfectly. But I can't figure out how to combine the two. 'man find' tells me the the OR operator is '-or'. Thus it seems that some incantation along this line would work: $ find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.gif -or *.jpg -print find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [path...] [expression] I've tried various placement of quotes, parenthesis, etc. but can't seem to find the right way to do this. Can someone show me my error? Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help With Find Syntax
Drew Tomlinson said the following on 10/14/2005 2:53 PM: I want to recursively search a directory and return files that end in .jpg or .gif but I can't seem to get the find syntax right. My basic command lines are: find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.gif -print OR find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.jpg -print find /multimedia/Pictures \( -iname '*.gif' -or -iname '*.jpg' \) -print That should do it for you. Best, --Glenn -- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help With Find Syntax
On Oct 14, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: $ find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.gif -or *.jpg -print find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [path...] [expression] I've tried various placement of quotes, parenthesis, etc. but can't seem to find the right way to do this. Can someone show me my error? find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.gif -or -iname *.jpg -print -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help With Find Syntax
On 10/14/2005 12:05 PM Glenn Sieb wrote: Drew Tomlinson said the following on 10/14/2005 2:53 PM: I want to recursively search a directory and return files that end in .jpg or .gif but I can't seem to get the find syntax right. My basic command lines are: find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.gif -print OR find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.jpg -print find /multimedia/Pictures \( -iname '*.gif' -or -iname '*.jpg' \) -print That should do it for you. OK, duh. I get it now. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Help With Find Syntax
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew Tomlinson Sent: 10/14/2005 12:54 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Help With Find Syntax I want to recursively search a directory and return files that end in .jpg or .gif but I can't seem to get the find syntax right. My basic command lines are: find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.gif -print OR find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.jpg -print Both of these work perfectly. But I can't figure out how to combine the two. 'man find' tells me the the OR operator is '-or'. Thus it seems that some incantation along this line would work: $ find /multimedia/Pictures -iname *.gif -or *.jpg -print find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [path...] [expression] I've tried various placement of quotes, parenthesis, etc. but can't seem to find the right way to do this. Can someone show me my error? Thanks, Drew Try: find /multimedia/Pictures \( -iname '*.gif' -o -iname '*.jpg' \) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help With Find Syntax
Drew Tomlinson said the following on 10/14/2005 3:13 PM: OK, duh. I get it now. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Quite welcome! Enjoy!! Best, --Glenn -- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help With 'find' Syntax
- Original Message - From: David Carter-Hitchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 5:04 PM Hi Drew, Find is one of those classic commands for confusing people. One just gets used to it over time. The behaviour of find varies significantly with different unixes under different shells. Which shell are you using? tcsh Under bash this command does what you want: find / -mtime 7 -size +1024c -ls -o -ctime 7 -size +1024c -ls the sense here is: find / (-mtime 7 -size +1024c -ls) -o (-ctime 7 -size +1024c -ls) meaning find (i.e. examine all files) from / and either a) print (-ls) files modified exactly 7 days old and greater than size 1024 chars (bytes). or (-o) b) print (-ls) files whose inode creation times are exactly 7 days old and greater than size 1024 chars. If neither a) nor b) are true for a file found under / then it is silently ignored. You may find the following note from man find helpful: # All primaries which take a numeric argument allow the number to be pre- # ceded by a plus sign (``+'') or a minus sign (``-''). A preceding plus # sign means ``more than n'', a preceding minus sign means ``less than n'' # and neither means ``exactly n''. So that is why I put a + in from of 1024 - to find files over 1024 bytes (c). This is the piece I was missing. Thanks! So in your example below: find /usr \( -mtime 6 -ls -size 100 \) -o \( -ctime 6 -ls -size 100 \) -print You are trying to find files that are exactly 100 512k blocks in size. Admittedly the files you found were not of this size and I don't know why they were found - I can replicate this on my machine here, but I don't know why - perhaps it is the file allocation. This is why I chose 1024c instead of block size. (And why is this file listed twice, anyway?) Perhaps because there was a symbolic link pointing to it (as shown by the '2' before the permissions). Ah yes, that's why? Thanks for your help and time. Now if I could just figure out where my disk space went... I'm still not seeing anything significant. I'll go back and look (now that I know how) at Oct. 24 and see if I can find anything there. Thanks again! Drew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help With 'find' Syntax
- Original Message - From: Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Carter-Hitchin [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 4:44 PM On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 11:34, David Carter-Hitchin wrote: Hi Drew, [snip] You may find the following note from man find helpful: # All primaries which take a numeric argument allow the number to be pre- # ceded by a plus sign (``+'') or a minus sign (``-''). A preceding plus # sign means ``more than n'', a preceding minus sign means ``less than n'' # and neither means ``exactly n''. So that is why I put a + in from of 1024 - to find files over 1024 bytes (c). So in your example below: find /usr \( -mtime 6 -ls -size 100 \) -o \( -ctime 6 -ls -size 100 \) -print You are trying to find files that are exactly 100 512k blocks in size. Admittedly the files you found were not of this size At each stage find applies the test argument and passes on files that remain to the next argument for manipulation. This in the first 'or' branch everthing that satisfies -mtime 6 is passed on to -ls and thus displayed before it is filtered by the -size 100 argument. To do what Drew wanted the -size +100 should be applied *before* the -ls. Thank you. Now I understand. (It is difficult to see why Drew would want to use both -ls and -print) Because I don't know what I'm doing. :) Thanks for pointing out that this is redundant. Cheers, Drew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help With 'find' Syntax -- SOLVED
Thank you to everyone for all your help! Something must have 'puked' during my nightly cvsup of the ports tree. Every directory under /usr/ports had a sysctl.core file. By deleting these files, I recovered my disk space. Thanks again! Drew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help With 'find' Syntax
- Original Message - From: David Carter-Hitchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:55 PM Subject: Re: Help With 'find' Syntax Hi Drew, This should find all files created or modified on 25th October: find / -mtime 6 -ls -o -ctime 6 -ls (As today is 31st October which is 6 days after 25th. You may need to widen your search a little with a seperate search with 7 as the paramter as 6 may not catch files that were created over 6 * 24 hours ago (but were still on the 25th); not sure about that). Thank you for your reply. I tried your suggestion and it seems to get what I want. However there are so many little files that I thought I'd modify the command to: find /usr \( -mtime 6 -ls -size 100 \) -o \( -ctime 6 -ls -size 100 \) -print If I understand the '-size' primary correctly, this means I would find files that are '100 512-byte blocks' in size or '50k'. Yet I still get output like this: 7621552 -r--r--r--1 root wheel 928 Oct 25 15:12 /usr/local/man/man3/pcre_compile.3.gz 7621552 -r--r--r--1 root wheel 928 Oct 25 15:12 /usr/local/man/man3/pcre_compile.3.gz (And why is this file listed twice, anyway?) So I guess my question is how can I find files created or modified on Oct. 25 and are larger than size? Thanks for any help. This is really confusing to me. Drew HTH, David On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On October 25, my /usr partition lost nearly 50% of it's available space. This disk hasn't had any significant size changes since I built the system as it basically serves as a gateway. I'm trying to use the find command to determine what may have been written to the disk but am not having any luck. I see primaries such as -atime, -mtime, -ctime, and -newer and have read the man pages but do not understand what the best combination to find those files. Basically how do I use 'find' to show me all file that were created or modified on October 25? I've tried commands such as find /usr \( -newerct 4d \! -newerct 3d \) -print but nothing is returned. Thanks, Drew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help With 'find' Syntax
Hi Drew, Find is one of those classic commands for confusing people. One just gets used to it over time. The behaviour of find varies significantly with different unixes under different shells. Which shell are you using? Under bash this command does what you want: find / -mtime 7 -size +1024c -ls -o -ctime 7 -size +1024c -ls the sense here is: find / (-mtime 7 -size +1024c -ls) -o (-ctime 7 -size +1024c -ls) meaning find (i.e. examine all files) from / and either a) print (-ls) files modified exactly 7 days old and greater than size 1024 chars (bytes). or (-o) b) print (-ls) files whose inode creation times are exactly 7 days old and greater than size 1024 chars. If neither a) nor b) are true for a file found under / then it is silently ignored. You may find the following note from man find helpful: # All primaries which take a numeric argument allow the number to be pre- # ceded by a plus sign (``+'') or a minus sign (``-''). A preceding plus # sign means ``more than n'', a preceding minus sign means ``less than n'' # and neither means ``exactly n''. So that is why I put a + in from of 1024 - to find files over 1024 bytes (c). So in your example below: find /usr \( -mtime 6 -ls -size 100 \) -o \( -ctime 6 -ls -size 100 \) -print You are trying to find files that are exactly 100 512k blocks in size. Admittedly the files you found were not of this size and I don't know why they were found - I can replicate this on my machine here, but I don't know why - perhaps it is the file allocation. This is why I chose 1024c instead of block size. (And why is this file listed twice, anyway?) Perhaps because there was a symbolic link pointing to it (as shown by the '2' before the permissions). HTH, David On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Drew Tomlinson wrote: - Original Message - From: David Carter-Hitchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:55 PM Subject: Re: Help With 'find' Syntax Hi Drew, This should find all files created or modified on 25th October: find / -mtime 6 -ls -o -ctime 6 -ls (As today is 31st October which is 6 days after 25th. You may need to widen your search a little with a seperate search with 7 as the paramter as 6 may not catch files that were created over 6 * 24 hours ago (but were still on the 25th); not sure about that). Thank you for your reply. I tried your suggestion and it seems to get what I want. However there are so many little files that I thought I'd modify the command to: find /usr \( -mtime 6 -ls -size 100 \) -o \( -ctime 6 -ls -size 100 \) -print If I understand the '-size' primary correctly, this means I would find files that are '100 512-byte blocks' in size or '50k'. Yet I still get output like this: 7621552 -r--r--r--1 root wheel 928 Oct 25 15:12 /usr/local/man/man3/pcre_compile.3.gz 7621552 -r--r--r--1 root wheel 928 Oct 25 15:12 /usr/local/man/man3/pcre_compile.3.gz (And why is this file listed twice, anyway?) So I guess my question is how can I find files created or modified on Oct. 25 and are larger than size? Thanks for any help. This is really confusing to me. Drew HTH, David On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On October 25, my /usr partition lost nearly 50% of it's available space. This disk hasn't had any significant size changes since I built the system as it basically serves as a gateway. I'm trying to use the find command to determine what may have been written to the disk but am not having any luck. I see primaries such as -atime, -mtime, -ctime, and -newer and have read the man pages but do not understand what the best combination to find those files. Basically how do I use 'find' to show me all file that were created or modified on October 25? I've tried commands such as find /usr \( -newerct 4d \! -newerct 3d \) -print but nothing is returned. Thanks, Drew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help With 'find' Syntax
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 11:34, David Carter-Hitchin wrote: Hi Drew, [snip] You may find the following note from man find helpful: # All primaries which take a numeric argument allow the number to be pre- # ceded by a plus sign (``+'') or a minus sign (``-''). A preceding plus # sign means ``more than n'', a preceding minus sign means ``less than n'' # and neither means ``exactly n''. So that is why I put a + in from of 1024 - to find files over 1024 bytes (c). So in your example below: find /usr \( -mtime 6 -ls -size 100 \) -o \( -ctime 6 -ls -size 100 \) -print You are trying to find files that are exactly 100 512k blocks in size. Admittedly the files you found were not of this size At each stage find applies the test argument and passes on files that remain to the next argument for manipulation. This in the first 'or' branch everthing that satisfies -mtime 6 is passed on to -ls and thus displayed before it is filtered by the -size 100 argument. To do what Drew wanted the -size +100 should be applied *before* the -ls. (It is difficult to see why Drew would want to use both -ls and -print) and I don't know why they were found - I can replicate this on my machine here, but I don't know why - perhaps it is the file allocation. This is why I chose 1024c instead of block size. Malcolm Kay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help With 'find' Syntax
Hi Drew, This should find all files created or modified on 25th October: find / -mtime 6 -ls -o -ctime 6 -ls (As today is 31st October which is 6 days after 25th. You may need to widen your search a little with a seperate search with 7 as the paramter as 6 may not catch files that were created over 6 * 24 hours ago (but were still on the 25th); not sure about that). HTH, David On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On October 25, my /usr partition lost nearly 50% of it's available space. This disk hasn't had any significant size changes since I built the system as it basically serves as a gateway. I'm trying to use the find command to determine what may have been written to the disk but am not having any luck. I see primaries such as -atime, -mtime, -ctime, and -newer and have read the man pages but do not understand what the best combination to find those files. Basically how do I use 'find' to show me all file that were created or modified on October 25? I've tried commands such as find /usr \( -newerct 4d \! -newerct 3d \) -print but nothing is returned. Thanks, Drew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help With 'find' Syntax
On October 25, my /usr partition lost nearly 50% of it's available space. This disk hasn't had any significant size changes since I built the system as it basically serves as a gateway. I'm trying to use the find command to determine what may have been written to the disk but am not having any luck. I see primaries such as -atime, -mtime, -ctime, and -newer and have read the man pages but do not understand what the best combination to find those files. Basically how do I use 'find' to show me all file that were created or modified on October 25? I've tried commands such as find /usr \( -newerct 4d \! -newerct 3d \) -print but nothing is returned. Thanks, Drew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
