On 1/23/07, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote: > > Anil Gulecha wrote: > > > > > > On 1/23/07, *Moinak Ghosh* <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com > > <mailto:Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com>> wrote: > > > > you'd need to use the following shell snippet: > > > > find . | while read f > > do > > cnt=`echo $f | sed 's/\// /g' | wc -w` > > if [ $cnt -lt <maxdepth> ] > > then > > echo $f > > fi > > done > > > > AFAIK there is no direct replacement. > > > > > > In this case we are traversing the entire structure, just not printing > > it out. this is unacceptable as the script will be looking for > > specific files, and taring them up. > > It does print. The default for find is to print - try it. And you can > provide > any arbitrary maxdepth.
I should have phrased my sentence better. yes, it does print, but the script traverses the _whole_ file system, printing _only_ what we ask. This takes a lot of time for say / or /etc/ the find /DIR/. \( -type d \! -name . -prune \) -o -type f -print command only looks for the required files and is thus very fast. Regards Anil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20070123/8ed9515e/attachment.html>
