* [email protected] <[email protected]>, 2010-07-14 23:26:53 Wed: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 08:06:17AM +0200, David Haguenauer wrote: > >I'd use grep; something like the following: > > > > find ~/.maildir/ -type d -name cur -printf '%h ' | grep -v '\.roger/' > I just tried both of these, and they don't filter using the grep -v. > > If I'm not mistaken, find within the above incantation, finds every > dir with a subfolder named "cur", as such, the "grep -v" filter is > simply ignored ... because find already passed every folder on one > line instead of multiple lines with a newline at the end of each > folder.
Absolutely. I guess that shows how hard I tested my code before posting it ;o). I'm sure you have found a command that actually solves your problem by now. -- David Haguenauer
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