On 25-Jan-06 Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I am trying to write some automation into a tape based DR process for an elderly SCO unix Box
I have an archive of the live systems complete filesystem which I can recover using a carefully formatted cpio command. However I want to exclude a few of the top level directories from this recovery (mostly /stand).
I've worked out how to use the find command to extract only certain files, but how do I do the opposite ?
Hi Wayne, If I've understood aright, you should be able to use the "-prune" optio to 'find'. See the explanation under the "-path" option in 'man find', as well as the "-prune" option near the end of the man page. Alternatively, if you use 'find' to generate a list of files, these will be output with their parent paths, so you could pipe this output through 'grep -v' before using it as the list of files to be archived. E.g. find / -name '*.jpg' -print | grep -v '[/]stand' or (if below the current directory "."): find . -name '*.jpg' -print | grep -v '[.][/]stand' Since you're apparently doing this on a SCO box, I don't know whether the 'find' on SCO has the same options as GNU 'find', but the 'grep -v' surely should work! Hoping this helps, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 25-Jan-06 Time: 23:58:15 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------