Unix Find without searching subdirectories

[bosoxer1]

I am trying to search for all files with "*20*" in the file name, but this command keep searching subdirectories.

I need to search only at the current level.

find . -name "*.20*" -mtime +10;

I have tried -prune, -depth, but still no luck.

Any thoughts?

 

[Gloups]

have a look at -maxdepth option

 

[KenCunningham]

Is that GNU find, Gloups?

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[bosoxer1]

-maxdepth is not supported in AIX 5.2. Any other thoughts?

 

[PHV]

Some flavors of find have a -level primary.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[bosoxer1]

Stirke two....-level is not supported...

I'm a bit closer with.... find . -type f -name "*.20*" -mtime +10 -o -type d -name archive -prune -exec rm {} \;

it bypasses the files in the sub dir archive(GOOD), but does list archive dir, and tries to delete entire dir(BAD).

 

[p5wizard]

how about:

find . -prune -type f -name "*.20*" -mtime +10 -print

(not at an AIX box right now, so can't verify it myself, not sure if I read the man page correctly)

change '-print' to '-exec rm {} \;' if satisfied with result.

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[bosoxer1]

No luck.....the prune up front stops all files from being listed.

I think I have to do this in multiple steps, find the files, awk the output to remove directories, and then pipe the results to a rm command.

Not sure if that can be done, buy will try...

 

[p5wizard]

No luck.....the prune up front stops all files from being listed.

I figured that out by now also. :-(

well then...

find . -type f -name '*.20*' -mtime +10 -print|grep -v /|xargs rm


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[olded]

One of Kyle Douglass' find tips searches only the current directory:

http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1344/ur0310e/

 

[p5wizard]

make that

find . -type f -name '*.20*' -mtime +10 -print|grep -v "/.*/"|xargs rm

or from olded's link:

find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \) -o \( -type f -name '*.20*' -mtime +10 -print \)

find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \) -o \( -type f -name '*.20*' -mtime +10 -exec rm {} \; \)



HTH,

p5wizard

 

[p5wizard]

And shorter; no need for brackets or test for dir (which is inherent to -prune):

find . ! -name . -prune -type f -name '*.20*' -mtime +10


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[bosoxer1]

Thank you guys....You came through again....

 

[columb]

Maybe I'm being dumb, and I wouldn't take away from all the gurus who know all the find options, but, if you want all the files in one directory which have the name "*.20*" what's wrong with

ls *.20*

and, simpler still, if you want to itterate through them rather than just list them

for file in *.20*
do
   process $file
done

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Columb Healy

 

[PHV]

Columb, you missed -mtime +10

 

[dstxaix]

Columb,

Would you not get "argument list too long" while using

ls *.20*

if there were too many files?