In Linux how do you find a directory not containing a particular file?

Answer 1

I had a similar problem. I needed to find directories containing JPGs but not MP3s. Here's the solution to that:

find . -type f -name *jpg -printf '%h\n'|sort|uniq -c|sed 's/^\s*[0-9]\+\ //' |
while read dir; do
if [ $(find "$dir" -name *mp3 | wc -l) -eq 0 ]; then
echo $dir;
fi;
done


From this the solution to your problem would become:


find . -type d |
while read dir; do
if [ $( find "$dir" -name | wc -l ) -eq 0 ]; then
echo $dir;
fi;
done