CODEWITHSUNDEEP
linuxfind
fakedrake
fakedrake

Reputation: 6856

`find` only in certain subdirectories

I have this directory structure

 $ tree test
test
├── test1
│   ├── test11
│   │   └── file.txt
│   ├── test12
│   │   └── file.txt
│   └── test13
│       └── file.txt
├── test2
│   └── file.txt
└── test3
    └── file.txt

6 directories, 5 files

and I want a find command that will return

$ find test -constrain_to_paths test/test{13} -name file.txt 
test/test3/file.txt
test/test1/test11/file.txt
test/test1/test12/file.txt
test/test1/test13/file.txt

So basically search for file.txt only in directories test/test1 and test/test3. To get this going I tried this

$ find test \( -path './test3/*' -o -path './test2/*' \) -name file.txt

but it returns nothing.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 27

Answers (1)

Onikur
Onikur

Reputation: 176

Seems this answer could help you https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/60850

For example: find test/test1 test/test3 -name file.txt

Upvotes: 2

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