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NAME

ffindcmd, ffind − find files by name or by other characteristics in FSP database

SYNOPSIS

ffindcmd pathname-list expression
ffind pathname-list expression

DESCRIPTION

ffindcmd recursively descends the directory hierarchy for each pathname in the pathname-list, seeking files that match a logical expression written using the operators listed below.

Operators
In the descriptions, the argument n is used as a decimal integer where +n means more than n, −n means less than n, and n means exactly n. All three maybe used if an integer argument is needed.

	−name filename		True if the filename argument matches the current file name. Shell argument syntax can be used if escaped (watch out for [, ? and *).
	−prune		Always yields true. Has the side effect of pruning the search tree at the file. That is, if the current path name is a directory, ffindcmd will not descend into that directory.
	−type c		True if the type of the file is c, where c is one of:

			for directory
	f		for plain file
	−size n

True if the file is n blocks long (512 bytes per block). If n is followed by a c, the size is in characters.

	−time n		True if the file has been accessed/modified/changed in n days.
	−exec command		True if the executed command returns a zero value as exit status. The end of command must be punctuated by an escaped semicolon. A command argument {} is replaced by the current pathname.
	−ok command		Like −exec except that the generated command is written on the standard output, then the standard input is read and the command executed only upon response y.
	−print		Always true; the current pathname is printed.
	−ls		Always true; prints current pathname together with its associated statistics. These include size in blocks (512 bytes), protection mode, number of hard links, user, group, size in bytes, and modification time.

Note: formatting is done internally, without executing the fls program.

	−newer file		True if the current file has been modified more recently than the argument filename.
	(expression)		True if the parenthesized expression is true.

Note: Parentheses are special to the shell and must be escaped.

	!primary		True if the primary is false (! is the unary not operator).
	primary1		[ −a ] primary2

True if both primary1 and primary2 are true. The −a is not required. It is implied by the juxtaposition of two primaries.

primary1 −o primary2

True if either primary1

or primary2 is true (−o is the or operator).

ffindcmd will perform csh file name globbing based on file and directory information obtained from the FSP database.

Since user’s command shells generally cannot do the proper globbing for this program, it is recommended that user defines a shell alias or function to turn off command shell globbing before running this program. csh example:

alias ffind \(set noglob\; exec ffindcmd \!\*\)

EXAMPLE

To find all the files called intro.ms starting from the current directory:

example% ffind . −name intro.ms −print
./manuals/assembler/intro.ms
./manuals/sun.core/intro.ms
./manuals/driver.tut/intro.ms
./manuals/sys.manager/uucp.impl/intro.ms
./supplements/general.works/unix.introduction/intro.ms
./supplements/programming.tools/sccs/intro.ms
example%

To recursively print all files names in the current directory and below, but skipping SCCS directories:

example% ffind . −name SCCS −prune −o −print
example%

To recursively print all files names in the current directory and below, skipping the contents of SCCS directories, but printing out the SCCS directory name:
example% ffind . −print −name SCCS −prune
example%

To remove files named a.out or *.o that have not been accessed for a week or more
example% ffind . \( −name a.out −o −name *.o \) −time +7 −exec frm {} \;

ENVIRONMENT

See fsp_env(7) for list of used environment variables.

BUGS

There seems to be a problem using an alias as command to execute. But since there is no globbing performed on the pathname the original FSP commands may be used instead.

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