using 'find' for file names with either/or text string in them

[yabai]

hi, this is probably really easy for some people but I'm stuck trying to amend part of a script.

find $test/$DIR_TYPE/ ! -name 'ade*' -mtime +31 | sort | xargs ls -l >>$LOGFILE

At the moment the above code looks in a certain directory for files with ade in the file name. I'd like to amend the script so that it looks for files that have 'ade*' and/or 'mtr*' in the file name. Can anyone point me at a good resource so that I can get this working?

Cheers

[ghostdog74]

find $test/$DIR_TYPE/  \( -name 'ade*' -o -name "mtr*" \) -mtime ....

[Cabhan]

Are you familiar with man pages? They are basically a manual for (just about) every command on your system. You can access them by typing "man COMMAND" from a terminal.

I suggest having a look at the find man page ("man find"), which explains how find works, and all of its options.

[yabai]

hi again,

I have this command working which finds all files apart from those starting with av, mpt, or that have batch within the name, or those files that have been accessed in the last thirty days. This info is put into a list and outputted to a logfile;

find $lib/$DIR_TYPE/ \( \! -name "av*" \! -name "mpt*" \! -name "*batch*" -mtime +31 -type f \) | sort | xargs ls -l >>$LOGFILE

Instead of outputting this data to a log file I would like to remove these files. I'm trying the code below but just can't work out the syntax as this command does not work.

find $lib/$DIR_TYPE/ \( \! -name "av*" \! -name "mpt*" \! -name "*batch*" -mtime +31 -type f \) -exec rm -f {} \; >>$LOGFILE

I have checked man find but can't see the answer. Any help would be great.

Cheers

[gerard4143]

If your looking for a good utility to search files and file contents try GTKFind...Gerard4143

[yabai]

cheers dude. i will checkit out. however, i have the find part sorted out, i just can't apply the rm -f command properly.

[matonb]

I'd use the -print0 option with find to output the file names null terminated and pipe the results in to xargs using the -0 (zero) option so it recognises null as the terminator...

hth