-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Bensley wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I can not find the corrent syntax for what I am trying to acheive with a > while loop. Having said that I'm not exactly sure what you would call it > so I have been googling with no success probably for that reason. > > I am just working with some sub directories except there is one I don't > want to use so I have a while loop like the following; if we stubmle > into the sub directory I wish to leave alone then there is an IF > statement and I have used the break command which is wrong, I don't want > to end this whole loop I just want to skip onto the next increment of > the loop as it were skipping this sub directory. Break is the wrong > command but what should it be? Sorry I can't be any clearer but I don't > know exactly what you would call this (which is why I am having no > success finding it for my self!) > > #!/bin/bash > find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read FOLDER > do > if [ $FOLDER == "./not_this_folder_oh_no!" ]; then > break > fi > <otherwise do some magic here> > done > > Many thanks for your time and input. > Regards, > James ;) Reverse the logic in the test and consolidate further #!/bin/bash find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read FOLDER do if [ $FOLDER != "./not_this_folder_oh_no!" ]; then <do some magic here> fi done Or exclude the directory in the find command itself #!/bin/bash find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type d -wholename './not_this_folder' -prune -o - -print | while read FOLDER do <do some magic here> done - -- David Goldsmith -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoqsu4ACgkQ417vU8/9QfkyXQCfXXeVhiREuESbs5aV4qXPXLi+ ZKkAoKfqqytzt8GBwf7CCVxrwooL5Ouu =Av57 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos