HP UNIX Find Comamnd

[J_170]

Hi,
What is the command line arguement that will only allow find go 1 level deep?

I have try -depth, it does not work.

[Simon Hargrave]

There's no need to use find for one level deep.

For example, you can achieve the hypothetical find command: -

find . -name "*fish*" -mysticaldepth 1

with

ls -d *fish* */*fish*

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

find . -name -xdev -exec command {} \;

-xdev will cause not to cross the FS boundries..you can also check prune option in find man page..

Cheers
Prashant

[Geoff Wild]

I agree with Simon - why find when you can grep?

-xdev will avoid any mounted file systems below the intial path...

Rgds...Geoff

[J_170]

Thank you for all your reply.
I am using the -mtime option to remove old files. But, I do not want it to go more than just that directory.
I have try -depth, -prune, -fonely, -only, etc. None of them do what I need.

Here is my command:
/bin/find . -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

[Rodney Hills]

Apart from gnu find (which has a -level option), you could do use the following-

find . -path "./*" -prune -print

The -path option will restrict it to 1 level. For 2 levels, -path "./*/*".

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Mark Greene_1]

You said you tried -prune and -depth. These are independant options, and neither will work when specified together. Did you try using just -prune? That should take care of what you need. Also, in my experience it is better to be in the directory and use the "." directory reference than not to be in the dir and use the path name.

mark