FIND without searching subdirectories 2

[MCubitt]

When I use find it searches subdirectories. How can I stop this? The -depth switch seems to be a clue but I am unsure exactly how!

thanks


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[sbix]

try -prune flag ....
just to be sure use it only to visualize results and not in associations with other commands

 

[MCubitt]

With prune I seem to get what I want, thanks.

I kind of just discovered it before notification of your post arrived.

So find /home/oracle/* -prune -type flbc
produced:
/home/oracle/err.txt
/home/oracle/findlarg.txt
/home/oracle/mbox
/home/oracle/orapwIFSL
/home/oracle/smit.log
/home/oracle/smit.script

PERFECT!

One side issue, if the folder is empty it returns an error..
"find: 0652-019 The status on /oracledata/DB/backup/* is not valid."

How does one trap this to IGNORE it. Ie, I don't care the fact it is empty but don't want to include the error in the output.

thanks



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[KenCunningham]

Put 2> /dev/null after your find command.

Cheers.

 

[MCubitt]

Doh, thanks Ken!


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[srisu02]

Just curious. But why do you use 'find' when u do not want to search subdirs?

Why do not u use ls (or grep instead of find . -exec)

Regds,
Subu

 

[MCubitt]

Subu:
Because it produced the continuous list with path and file name perfectly well, does LS also do this?




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[srisu02]

Oh true. You are right.
I too used to use find for the same purpose

 

[ogniemi]

I am not exactly sure (have no AIX box near me) but probably running the following you will get full paths...

DIR=/home/oracle/
ls -al $DIR

 

[ogniemi]

sorry, I was thinking about:

ls -al $DIR/*

 

[ggitlin]

Also, "find" command's -xdev switch searches all sub-directories, but does not span filesystems.