How to run find cmd with NSTask

Question

I'm trying to get the following find command to work via NSTask:

find /Users/user/projects ! -path '*.git*' -ctime -1

However I am having trouble to get the ignore path part to work. In terminal it works fine. I get the modified files of the last 24 hrs excluding the .git directories. When using NSTask, the .git directories are not ignored, resulting in way too many positives...... I am using the following args:

NSArray *args = @[@"/Users/user/projects", @"!", @"-path", @"'*.git*'", @"-ctime", @"-1"];

Does anybody know what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

I think you have to replace the argument

@"'*.git*'"

by

@"*.git*"

otherwise find will ignore only files that are named '*.git*' (verbatim). Note that the shell removes the single quotes when you execute the command in the Terminal.

Answer 2

You may also find it easier to do.

NSString *argString = @"/Users/user/projects ! -path '*.git*' -ctime -1";
[nsTaskName setArguments: [argString componentsSeparatedByString: @" "]];

When you debug your arguments in terminal you can do just do a copy and past and add 'find ' in front of it.