[TriLUG] Slightly off topic

[Ken MacKenzie]

I think my life might be easier instead of omitting just making the type
part of the search so instead of -o -type d -prune a -type f will do

So now it is the trick about recursion and only outputting file name.  My
googling on the topic of an alternate to maxdepth on solaris is not leading
to encouraging results yet.

Ken

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Ken MacKenzie <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:

> Bash is not an option so I could do it in ksh, but I really want to avoid
> needing a script for this as that turns into an extra dependency in
> delivering that script as part of the program that will access the OS to do
> this.
>
> I could clean this up on the return to the program.  I was just hoping for
> something as clean as the Windoze version of this.  Yes amazingly this was
> easier in windoze
>
> dir /A:-D /A:-H /B searchtring
>
> Ken
>
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:
>
>> I think your initial attempt at using find would work. Use a bash for
>> loop and basename to strip off the path. AFAIK, find is the most convenient
>> way to filter out links.
>>
>> Igor
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