Recursively find specific files in certain directories.

groll — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:04:37 +0000

Here’s a nice use of linux find to locate all ssl certificate files on a filesystem stored in directories name /certificates that excludes pesky .svn results:

find . -path "*/certificates/*" -not \( -name .svn -prune \)

I recently used this technique for pulling all certificates that were scatterred throughout a svn repository. Taking this output you can then easily copy them to another location (say for production deployment)

find . -path "*/certificates/*" -not \( -name .svn -prune \) -exec cp '{}' ./deploy/dist/certificates ';'

To go one step further integrating this into an ANT build proved to be a pain in the butt. The ant exec task was causing me alot of grief so ended up using antcontrib tasks like this:

description="Prepare folder with all certificates required for deployment."> find ./servicegroup -path "*/certificates/*" -not \( -name .svn -prune \) -exec cp '{}' ./deploy/dist/certificates ';' find ./deploy/certificates -path "*" -not \( -name .svn -prune \) -exec cp '{}' ./deploy/dist/certificates ';'

… much easier!

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