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I would like to find directories that does not contain a file with name OSZICAR and then cd into that directory and do something more...

all i have now is:

find `pwd` -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d -exec sh -c "echo {}; cd {}; ls; if [! -f $0/OSZICAR];echo "doing my thing";fi" \;

but there is error, could anyone help? Thank you

My original command without the Criteria of Not having OSZICAR is:

find `pwd` -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d -exec sh -c "echo {}; cd {}; ls; cp ../../submit_script_Stampede.sh .; ls;sed -i s/Monkhorst/Gamma/ KPOINTS; cp CONTCAR POSCAR ;sbatch submit_script_Stampede.sh" \;
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for dir in $(find ${PWD} -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d) do cd ${dir} ls OSZICAR > /dev/null 2>&1; r=${?} if [ ${r} -ne 0 ] then # do your thing here fi done
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  • Thanks... seems no easier way to just directly incorporate to one find command:) Commented Mar 8, 2016 at 19:26
  • There is a possibility of making it a one liner but it just complicates the process in my opinion. Type these lines on a command prompt one by one. Execute it and then recall the line by up arrow (using bash I assume). You will see the one liner version. If you want to make an alias or something, you can. Commented Mar 8, 2016 at 19:30
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Make sure that the [ and ] are space separated and remove the " around the argument for the echo command or replace those " by \". Also note that {} must be a separate argument.

So a corrected command would be:

find `pwd` -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d -exec sh -c 'echo $1; cd $1; ls; if [ ! -f OSZICAR ];then echo "doing my thing";fi' dummy {} \;
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  • Still having a error: dummy: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token fi' dummy: -c: line 0: echo $1; cd $1; ls; if [ ! -f OSZICAR ];echo "doing my thing";fi' Commented Mar 8, 2016 at 19:30
  • OK added a then. Whether this does what you like is still not clear but it lists all directories. Commented Mar 8, 2016 at 19:33

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