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Use the FIND command non-recursively

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noury -  
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.
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    1. Clust
      For AIX/Solaris/etc you can use -prune
      (I just saw that the answer has already been given..)
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      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
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        1. pitch58fr
          Que Dieu te bénisse ;-)
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        2. mumuri
          You're welcome.
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        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)}'
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        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.
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        5. Aleph
          Thank you for bringing this solution back up. It has served me well (2011).
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      2. 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.
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        2. aaa
          oh, with some | and ls we should be able to make it, right?
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          1. 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?
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            1. 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
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              1. bill
                Hey buddy.
                Since there are 15,000 lines of manual -> you are out of sync.
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