ls output

Matthew Gillen me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org
Mon Oct 20 15:08:57 EDT 2008


Don Levey wrote:
> Gregory Boyce wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Don Levey wrote:
> 
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>>> What I'm trying to do seems like it should be simple, but I can't find
>>> the solution.  I have a directory hierarchy; ideally what I want to do
>>> is to get a full directory path listing for each file of a particular
>>> type (in this case, *.xml).
>>>
>>> My first try was the following:
>>>
>>>     <FILEPATH>/*/*/*.xml
>>>
>> Have you tried using find instead of ls?
> 
>> find /PATH -name *.xml
> 
> I'm trying that now.  I need to discuss with one of our other folks
> whether it will be a problem to grab any of the .xml files from
> directories other than "three deep" from the base.

find /PATH -mindepth 3 -name "*.xml"


Matt





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