I'd like to do an lsd or lsf or some similar command that lists any directory matching a certain string. The documentation for these commands says this is possible, but, it just isn't

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So basically I’m trying to use lsd or lsf and I want --include “SOMETHING” to only show me results containing SOMETHING… yet instead I’m simply shown all directories.

Is there anyway to show me a list of directories that match a string? It’d be really helpful when using -R to make the command recursive, otherwise I get spammed and have trouble finding what I am looking for.

If this isn’t possible, it should at least be removed from the documentation that claims it is possible…

edit: Hopefully I’m just doing something wrong and it is possible and someone can point out what I’ve done wrong. Thanks.

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Can you share what you are running and what the output is and what you are expecting?

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rclone -v lsd --include “ackup” “crypt:folder”

Result: a list of all about 100 directories in “crypt:folder”
Desired Result: the list of one or two directories in “crypt:folder” that contain the string ackup in the directory’s name

alternatively of course lsf but… the desires and failures are the same.

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It’s all on how your match is:

https://rclone.org/filtering/#directories

felix@gemini:~$ rclone lsd gcrypt: --include "TV"
          -1 2018-06-17 10:24:02        -1 Movies
          -1 2018-06-17 09:16:39        -1 Radarr_Movies
          -1 2017-04-18 16:14:26        -1 TV
          -1 2018-06-30 12:55:49        -1 TV_Ended

felix@gemini:~$ rclone lsd gcrypt: --include /TV*/
          -1 2017-04-18 16:14:26        -1 TV
          -1 2018-06-30 12:55:49        -1 TV_Ended

felix@gemini:~$ rclone lsd gcrypt: --include /TV*/
          -1 2017-04-18 16:14:26        -1 TV
          -1 2018-06-30 12:55:49        -1 TV_Ended
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The filtering commands match files by default. So when you say --include SOMETHING rclone is looking for files with that in - that is why it shows you all the directories as that file might be in any of them. If you want directories then you need --include SOMETHING/

This is alluded to here https://rclone.org/filtering/#directories as @Animosity022 pointed out.

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thanks, sorry for being so inept!

also… new problem now :frowning:
so
rclone -v lsd --include “*ackup/” “crypt:folder”
worked
but now I want to do rclone -v lsd --include “*backup/” -R “crypt:”
it doesn’t work, it returns nothing.
how do I make lsd or lsf work like lsl? Documentation says -R makes them recurse? but is it just not possible to do what I want here? and search subdirectories for directory names?

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The directory filtering doesn’t seem to work very well for finding directories :frowning:

It was designed to find files, so if you search for directories, you’ll find all the directories that that directory could be in which isn’t really what you want.

I think you might be better off with rclone lsf -R --dirs-only and piping that into grep.

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Okay cool, thanks, yeah, I can already just use my plaintext copy of lsf or whatever to do this job. I was just wondering if what I wanted to do was possible, the fact you replied here means to me… that… I wasn’t being dumb, it’s just a limitation of rclone, and honestly not that important of a limitation, I should remember what sort of directory structure I’ve chosen to use, and if I can’t, well like you said, I can search the plaintext output of everything.

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Not you being dumb at all! Perhaps I should document how the --include filters work with directories - in general they are all about searching for files, so they don’t really do what you expect with the ls commands! I’ve found this frustrating too BTW!