find a file down 1 level only

[S.C. Fun]

Hi, assuming that I have this directory structure:
/home/user1/projA/scheda
and a file namely "term" was found in both /home/user1/projA and /home/user1/projA/scheda

let say i want to seach a the file "term" in /home/user1/projA only but not any level down below, i use:
# find /home/user1 -name term
the output also show me the file under /home/user1/projA/scheda. what option should i use in find command to limit my search at certain level only? Thanks in advance.

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

If it is just 1 level down as indicated in your query, then,

1) At the command line:

# ls /home/user1|grep term;for i in /home/user1/*;do if [ -d $i ];then ls $i|grep term;fi;done

2) As a script:
==========================
#!/sbin/sh

DIR=/home/user1
SEARCH=term

ls $DIR | grep $SEARCH
for i in $DIR/*
do
if [ -d $i ]
then
ls $i | grep $SEARCH
fi
done
==========================

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Stefan Farrelly]

You can use either;

cd /home/user1
ls */*term* (the first * means only go down 1 level, if you wanted 2 levels then do ls */*/*term*)
or
ls projA/*term*

or

ls /home/uers/projA/*term*

This will search only that directory.

[T G Manikandan · Accepted solution]

check this link

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xcfd194f22a31d6118fff0090279cd0f9,00.html

[Steve Steel]

Hi

make a script myfind like this

#myfind
#
#params dir and filename
dir=$1
file=$2
echo $dir"/"$(ls -1 $dir|grep $file$)


Steve Steel

[John Carr_2]

Hi

find -fsonly /home/user1/projA -name filename

John.

[John Carr_2]

Please ignore my last response i mis read the question.

John.