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@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos