how can we limit "find" to the current directory

[cantubas]

I have
A/B/ea
A/B/eb
A/B/ed
A/B/ef
A/B/eg/ea


And when i m doing
Find /A/B –type f –name "e*" i have
A/B/ea
A/B/eb
A/B/ed
A/B/ef
A/B/eg/ea (i don't want this file!!!!)

But i don't want to find search in sub-directories of A/B/
How could i do????

 

[hoinz]

why not just this:
ls A/B/*e*

 

[hoinz]

I was too fast it seems;
ls -d A/B/*e*
whould be slightly better.

 

[iribach]

play a litte with the -prune opt of find
see manpages

 

[cantubas]

it is not ok:
your solution gives me:
A/B/ea
A/B/eb
A/B/ed
A/B/ef
A/B/eg
and A/B/eg is not a sample file but a directory

 

[hoinz]

cantubas,
yes, I know.
That's why I wrote 'slightly better'.
I did not write 'correct'.
Sorry

 

[stefanwagner]

man find

find /A/B -maxdepth 1 –type f –name "e*"

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[cantubas]

sorry but i haven't got maxdepth option on HPUX

 

[PHV]

Perhaps -level ?

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[Ygor]

I think -maxdepth is GNU find only. Try -prune, e.g...
[tt]
cd /A/B
find . \( ! -name . -prune \) –type f –name "e*" [/tt]

 

[olded]

Hi:

If your find doesn't support prune or maxdepths, perhaps you can modify this. The following one-liner lists all the filenames in the current working directory only. One caveat — this method is terribly inefficient because find still forces a check of the entire directory tree structure. (For Solaris, use nawk instead of awk.)

find . -type f -print | awk ' gsub("^./","") ' |egrep -v "/"

Regards,


Ed

 

[PHV]

olded, a less inefficient way:
find . -type -f | grep -v '/.*/'

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[iribach]

no, no, phv: very efficient
mine is a little shorter
find . >/dev/null
olded: (on solaris) why not
cd /usr/bin; mv awk oawk; ln -s nawk awk
?

 

[toolkit]

Try this:

dir=/A/B
basedir=`basename $dir`
find $dir \( -type d ! -name $basedir -prune \) -o \( -type f -name "e*" -print \)

Cheers, Neil