Search by directory name?

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1

hi,

from my understanding it is only possible to search for files, not directory names. is that correct?

2

How do you want to search? You can pull or push both.

3

at the moment when I search, I am doing this:

rclone ls --include "*infinite*" acd:

but it only returns files. I have tried lsd without result…

4

We’ll. You can search for paths that contain the directory name. Would that work?

rclone ls --include "**infinite/**" acd:

Note the two stars… And I added a / for an anchor so it should match directories better.

5

thanks.

rclone ls --include "**infinite/**" acd: returns nothing but rclone ls --include "**infinite**" acd: returns every file with a matching directory name, which is progress.

is there any way to limit the results to directories only? I presume that is what your / is intended to do? any idea why it doesn’t work?

6

You can’t limit the results to ‘just directories’ but you can search for paths with directories. Directories on these cloud providers aren’t even really directories. If you really need just a directory list and need better searching, you have two options:

  1. mount the cloud provider and use normal linux find/ls commands:

rclone mount acd: /some/dir &
find /some/dir -type d
fusermount -u /some/dir

  1. Script it and parse for directories. This will get messy fast. :slight_smile:

rclone ls --include "**infinite**" robacd: | awk '{print $2}' | nawk '{match($1, "^.*/"); print substr($1, 1, RLENGTH-1)}' | sort -u