Hi

find / -name "*httpd*" -type d |grep -v www\

Thanks.. Ideally I'd like to use the -delete flag to find once i have the right command. But with that I suppose I could use find / -name "*httpd*" -type d |grep -v www\ | xargs rm -rfv

Assuming that the initial find doesn't do anything too scary.

Thanks Tim

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Chris Geldenhuis chris.gelden@iafrica.com wrote:

On 10/28/2014 11:00 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:

...

Hey guys,

Sorry not sure what's wrong with this statement. I've tried a few variations of trying to exclude the /var/www directory.

[root@224432-24 apr-1.5.1]# find / -name "*httpd*" -type d ( ! -name www ) /usr/lib/httpd /usr/lib64/httpd /var/www/vhosts/johnnyenglish/httpdocs /var/www/lpaddevbkp/alchemist/namespace/system-config-httpd /var/www/lpaddevbkp/httpd

The ultimate intention once I get a suitable find command is to delete all references to httpd. I'm trying to do a clean install of apache 'the company way'. But before I do that I want to get rid of the apache that was there.

I've already queried the rpm database and did a yum remove of the apache packages.

So where I'm I going wrong with the above statement? Looks right to me!

Thanks Tim

Hi,

Try:

find / -name "*httpd*" -type d |grep -v www

Regards

ChrisG _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

In centos, the apache package is named httpd, not apache. try removing the packages first. (yum remove httpd)

Yup! Already done. I did say I removed apache packages, realizing the name of the package is actually httpd in centos. My bad for not communicating clearly. This exercise is just to remove any stray bits of httpd that are left on the system before I do a source install. It's what the client wants.

thanks tim

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.volotinen@iki.fi wrote:

2014-10-28 23:00 GMT+02:00 Tim Dunphy bluethundr@gmail.com:

...

Hey guys,

Sorry not sure what's wrong with this statement. I've tried a few variations of trying to exclude the /var/www directory.

[root@224432-24 apr-1.5.1]# find / -name "*httpd*" -type d ( ! -name

www

...

) /usr/lib/httpd /usr/lib64/httpd /var/www/vhosts/johnnyenglish/httpdocs /var/www/lpaddevbkp/alchemist/namespace/system-config-httpd /var/www/lpaddevbkp/httpd

The ultimate intention once I get a suitable find command is to delete

all

...

references to httpd. I'm trying to do a clean install of apache 'the company way'. But before I do that I want to get rid of the apache that

was

...

there.

I've already queried the rpm database and did a yum remove of the apache packages.

So where I'm I going wrong with the above statement? Looks right to me!

In centos, the apache package is named httpd, not apache. try removing the packages first. (yum remove httpd)

-- Eero _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

On 10/28/2014 5:32 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:

On 10/28/2014 04:00 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:

...

Hey guys,

Sorry not sure what's wrong with this statement. I've tried a few variations of trying to exclude the /var/www directory.

[root@224432-24 apr-1.5.1]# find / -name "*httpd*" -type d ( ! -name www ) /usr/lib/httpd /usr/lib64/httpd /var/www/vhosts/johnnyenglish/httpdocs /var/www/lpaddevbkp/alchemist/namespace/system-config-httpd /var/www/lpaddevbkp/httpd

Well, no name that matches "*httpd*" will also match "www", so that last term will never match. What you want is the "prune" action:

  find / -name www -prune -o -name "*httpd*"

Or use -path instead of -name.

Your original find statement should work with the -path test.

find / -name "*httpd*" -type d ( ! -path /var/www )

but combining it with -prune is more efficient since it excludes the whole directory tree instead of individually excluding each file.

find / -path /var/www -prune -o -name "*httpd*"