Using the linux locate command all files that have _webos_cfg.php in
the file name and do not have the excludethissite.com in the name.


Here's a sample list to work with:

subdomain1.excludethissite.com_webos_cfg.php
sd4.keepthissite.com.com_webos_cfg.php
sd4e.keepthissite.com.com_webos_cfg.php
sd4w.keepthissite.com.com_webos_cfg.php
sd45.keepthissite.com.com_webos_cfg.php
subdomain2.excludethissite.com_webos_cfg.php
subdomain3.excludethissite.com_webos_cfg.php

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Clarification of Question by mikeyb-ga on 21 Oct 2005 13:34 PDT

Using the linux locate command, locate all files that have _webos_cfg.php in

The resulting locate output should be :

sd4.keepthissite.com.com_webos_cfg.php
sd4e.keepthissite.com.com_webos_cfg.php
sd4w.keepthissite.com.com_webos_cfg.php
sd45.keepthissite.com.com_webos_cfg.php

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Request for Question Clarification by leapinglizard-ga on 21 Oct 2005 14:08 PDT

The locate command does not allow for pattern specifications powerful
enough to carry out this search. If you are open to other means of
accomplishing this from the Linux command line, I can suggest a very
good one.

leapinglizard

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Clarification of Question by mikeyb-ga on 24 Oct 2005 04:55 PDT

The reason I am using the locate command is that because the folder
that I need to search has over a million files in it. Sorry I didn't
specify that up front. I am not against the solution being a bash
script as long as it is a fairly readable script.

thanks!

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Clarification of Question by mikeyb-ga on 25 Oct 2005 06:12 PDT

locate has a -r parameter to specify a regex statement.

It is possible with locate command, I can give you a solution to this.
Alternatively I can give you a solution the uses find instead which
should be just as fast if run in directories of say 1000 files or so.
Regards
Andrew