Re: The quickest way to not to descend into sub-directories once a file is found?

2019-10-02 Thread Stephane Chazelas
2019-10-02 17:10:25 -0500, Peng Yu: > I’ve checked this many years ago. One directory exec is not acceptable in > my case. I ended up with two pass, one to check which directory to include > and exclude, then search for files in the directory included. But I am > looking for something better. [...]

Re: The quickest way to not to descend into sub-directories once a file is found?

2019-10-02 Thread Peng Yu
I’ve checked this many years ago. One directory exec is not acceptable in my case. I ended up with two pass, one to check which directory to include and exclude, then search for files in the directory included. But I am looking for something better. On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 4:25 PM Bernhard Voelker

Re: The quickest way to not to descend into sub-directories once a file is found?

2019-10-02 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 2019-09-27 17:26, Peng Yu wrote: > On 2019-09-27 09:49, Stephane Chazelas wrote: >> Here, you could do: >> >> find . -type d -exec test -e '{}/file.txt' \; -prune -printf '%p/file.txt\n' >> >> But note that it involves forking a process and executing a test >> command in it for each non-pruned d