Re: Find command with multiple file types

2003-10-02 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks, both ! and -o work just as expected. Now, please see my next question about file times. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: Find command with multiple file types

2003-10-01 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Campbell shocked and awed us all by speaking: one parameter at a time. Is there some way for a single find command to search for several specified file types? man find and info find are both silent on this issue. find / -xdev ! -type d

Find command with multiple file types

2003-09-30 Thread Joel Hammer
This simple chore of setting up a backup program is taking my evening. I remember now why I was putting this off. I am using find to find files newer than the last backup to feed them to tar. This is working as expected, more or less. I want to find all file types except directories, especially