topic Re: Nonrecursive find. in Operating System - HP-UX

Nonrecursive find.

Matt Williamson — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:33:29 GMT

Is there a way to do a nonrecursive find? I'm using find to clean out a tmp directory that contains subdirectories I don't want cleaned out. Is there a way to tell find not to descend the hierarchy and only find files in the base directory given on the command line?

Re: Nonrecursive find.

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:55:49 GMT

Hi,

You could use 'll /directory |grep -v "^d""

-Sri

Re: Nonrecursive find.

Jeff Schussele — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:01:33 GMT

Hi Matt,

Use the following param:

! -type d

to avoid traversing dirs.

HTH,
Jeff

Re: Nonrecursive find.

Jan Zalman — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 08:24:04 GMT

Hi,

find ./* ./.* -prune
or
find /fullpath/* /fullpath/.* -prune

Regards
Jan

Re: Nonrecursive find.

Jan Zalman — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 08:52:22 GMT

Oops! I typed mistake, it should be
find /tmp/* /tmp/.* -prune ! -type d
Sorry.
Jan

Re: Nonrecursive find.

Jean-Louis Phelix — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 09:07:35 GMT

Hi,

I've tested ...

find /tmp/* /tmp/.* -prune ! -type d

Regards

Re: Nonrecursive find.

Matt Williamson — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:40:15 GMT

Hi all. You really came together and figured this one out for me. It works great and has solved one of my sys. admin. problems. Thanks so much for your help.

Matt