Nonrecursive find.

[Matt Williamson]

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?

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

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

-Sri

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Matt,

Use the following param:

! -type d

to avoid traversing dirs.

HTH,
Jeff

[Jan Zalman]

Hi,

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

Regards
Jan

[Jan Zalman]

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

[Jean-Louis Phelix]

Hi,

I've tested ...

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

Regards

[Matt Williamson]

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