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The quickest way to not to descend into sub-directories once a file is f
From: |
Peng Yu |
Subject: |
The quickest way to not to descend into sub-directories once a file is found? |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 21:57:09 -0500 |
Hi,
I'd like to find files named `file.txt` recursively. But the directory
structure has a property that if any directory has a file `file.txt`,
any of its subdirectories will not have file.txt anymore.
Therefore, the quickest way to `find` is to stop descending into
subdirectories if their ancestor directories already have `file.txt`.
But I don't see how to encode this rule with `find` (-prune doesn't
seem to apply to this case).
Is there a way to do so with `find`? Thanks.
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Regards,
Peng
- The quickest way to not to descend into sub-directories once a file is found?,
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