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Use the FIND command non-recursively

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Hello,
does anyone know how to use the find command without descending into the directory tree?

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  1. jisisv Moderator
    You use the option -maxdepth 
     find . -name '*.c' -maxdepth 1 -type f

    --> all the files in the current directory.

    Johan
    Gates vous a donné les fenêtres.
    GNU nous a donné toute la maison.
    1. Thibal
      I bring up the subject from his grave in case someone comes across it during a search.
      In fact, there is a solution with prune:

      find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \) -o -type f -print

      1) We indicate that directories that are not called "." are not traversed
      2) We request the display of files
      1. pitch58fr
        Que Dieu te bénisse ;-)
      2. mumuri
        You're welcome.
      3. den07y
        And otherwise, under AIX, you just need to use the ls command without filters (the limitation of ls only appears with filters).
        So ls -1 | grep TOTO to filter all files in the current directory that contain "TOTO"
        or ls -1 | awk '/^TOTO.*$/' to filter all files in the current directory that start with TOTO (etc...)
        => no recursion
        to delete (example with all files starting with TOTO:

        ls -1 | awk '/^TOTO.*$/{system("rm -f " $0)}'
      4. Antoine
        Another example (that worked under HPUX)

        To delete all files older than 3 days in this directory....
        find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \) -o -type f -mtime +3 -exec echo rm {} \; > cleanup.sh

        then simply run cleanup.sh after verification.
      5. Aleph
        Thank you for bringing this solution back up. It has served me well (2011).
    2. B@|-|@N
      ben fais un man find pour plus d'infos su la commande find de linux.

      find dossier_ds_lequel_tu_cherches -name nom_du_fichier_a_chercher

      Bahan

      Close the world.||.txen eht nepO
      1. bill
        Hey buddy.
        Since there are 15,000 lines of manual -> you are out of sync.
    3. scavenger
      Hello

      I have the same question but for AIX/Solaris/etc, that is to say not Linux!
      -[min/max]depth does not exist.

      Personally, I think it's impossible, but someone might have another opinion?
      3. scavenger
        No, no, we can or we can't, but we must know that it only works under Linux, that's it.
        In principle, we should close this subject and consider it resolved.
        1. Clust
          For AIX/Solaris/etc you can use -prune
          (I just saw that the answer has already been given..)