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I have a folder structure like this (which is a small snippet):
└── test
└── cases
└── model
├── client
│ ├── socketsTest.coffee
├── server
│ └── socketsTest.coffee
└── shared
└── findersTest.coffee
The question is, how do you list all paths that end in .coffee and don't exist in the client folder?
The following command returns all files matching .coffee that exist in the server folder:
find test -name "*Test.coffee" | egrep '/*server*/'
But what I really need is a regex that matches everything except what's in the client folder.
What is the cleanest way to do this on *nix? The end goal is to return files not inside a client folder, so for the above tree that would be:
$ <find files except those a client folder>
test/cases/model/server/socketsTest.coffee
test/cases/model/shared/findersTest.coffee
I tried doing something like this but no luck:
find test -name "*Test.coffee" | egrep '*model/[^client]*'
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In grep the asterisk only matches multiples of the preceding character. The wildcard * can be a substitute for any number of letters, numbers, or characters. Wildcards can specify a group of letters or numbers. Wildcards can specify a group of letters or numbers.
If you want to find all lines that do not contain a specified pattern, you can use the -v or --invert-match option.
To search all files in the current directory, use an asterisk instead of a filename at the end of a grep command. The output shows the name of the file with nix and returns the entire line.
The grep command searches through the file, looking for matches to the pattern specified. To use it type grep , then the pattern we're searching for and finally the name of the file (or files) we're searching in. The output is the three lines in the file that contain the letters 'not'.
You can use the -prune action to ignore directories. -o means "or", so read this as, "if it's named client prune it, otherwise print files named *.coffee".
find test -name client -prune -o -name '*.coffee' -print
Or you can use a double test, which is easier to read but slightly less efficient, since it'll recurse into client/ directories, whereas the first one avoids them entirely.
find test -name '*.coffee' ! -wholename '*/client/*'
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