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nimrodman

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Nov 22, 2005
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How can you use find and not have it traverse sub directories, I tried using -prune to no success, any suggesions?


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HTH,

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On a Linux system, if you place a '/*' after the name of the directory you are interested in and use the -prune, it should give you what you want. For example,

Code: 
find /usr/* -prune

will list what it finds in the directory /usr and it will not decend into the directories under /usr.

 
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