Re: find starting from leaf rather than root

[James Youngman]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
> I know that 'find' start from a dir then recursively check subdirectories.
>
> But I have an application, in which I need to check the start
> directory first then check the parent directory (I want to control
> whether to go to sibling directories) then the grandparent directory
> (I want to control whether to go to sibling directories of the parent
> directory).
>
> More general, thinking of the filesystem as a tree, I want to traverse
> it starting from a non-root node and need some flexible rules to rule
> out certain branches. I'm wondering if such a tool is available
> somewhere?

I'm not aware of one, but such a thing would be relatively simple to
code in Python or even Perl (which is probably why nobody wrote a
dedicated tool).

James.