How can I stop the FIND command from Recursivly Searching

[pepito609]

Hi guys,
Sorry about the really simple question, but I don't use UNIX much, I am writing a script that executes some other script code based on whether it finds some files or not. Here is what I came up with:

#!/bin/csh
FILE='XXX.YYY.*'
if find ./ -name $FILE ; then
echo "true"
else
echo "false"
fi

The problem is that in another sub-directory I have historical files with the same name structure with ".gz" I have to use the * wildcard and as such it picks up the ".gz" in the other subdirectory. Also, the names can not change.

Is there a way for me to tell the find command to not search recursively?

Thanks and my apologies for the simplicity of the question.

pepito609

 

[SamBones]

Don't use [tt]find[/tt]. If you're just looking in the current directory, an [tt]ls[/tt] will do.

I don't know C-shell too well, but here it is in Korn shell...

#!/bin/ksh

FILE='XXX.YYY.*'

ls ${FILE} > /dev/null 2>&1 ; STATUS=!$?

if (( ${STATUS} ))
then
    echo "True, ${FILE} exists in $(pwd)!"
else
    echo "False, ${FILE} doesn't exist in $(pwd)!"
fi

Hope this helps.

 

[marrow]

FYI a find command can also "exclude" files by using:-
! -name "$EXCLUDEFILE" within the command

EXCLUDEFILE="*.gz"
find $DIRECTORY -name "$FILENAME" ! -name "$EXCLUDEFILE" -mtime $DAYS -type f -exec $ACTION {} \; $LOG

 

[kozlow]

You can also do a

if [ -a $FILE ]
then
echo $FILE exists
else
echo $FILE does not exist
fi

 

[Annihilannic]

Also the -prune option is useful for controlling find's level of recursion.

Annihilannic.