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From: Karthik Vishwanath <karthikv@Alum.Dartmouth.ORG>
To: Newbie List <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: finding directories within a particular directory
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:51:00 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0902101643170.16854@localhost> (raw)

Hi all,

I have been trying to come up with a way of getting find to give me a list 
of all directories within a specific directory, without including the 
parent in the list. I do not seem to be able to achieve it.

For instance, my directory tree has the following structure:
.
`-- Patient1
     |-- 02-03-2009
     `-- 02-10-2009

I want find to only match 02-03-2009 and 02-10-2009. However, the 
following command gives:

$ find Patient1 -type d
Patient1/
Patient1/02-03-2009
Patient1/02-10-2009

How do I stop matching the parent directory - "Patient1", in this case?

Of course, I could pipe this output through sed/grep to get what I 
need, but I am curious if I can do it using find alone. All help is 
appreciated.


Thanks,

-K

-- 
The production of too many useful things results in too many
useless people - Karl Marx

Computers are useful things - KV

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             reply	other threads:[~2009-02-10 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-10 21:51 Karthik Vishwanath [this message]
2009-02-11 19:26 ` finding directories within a particular directory Flemming Greve Skovengaard

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