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Question by VJ
Submitted on 7/25/2003
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How do we stop recursive find? i.e, if i put in a find command, it should search for files in that directory only.....not go to the sub directories

Answer by tony
Submitted on 8/20/2003
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With GNU find: find . -maxdepth 1 ....

Answer by Perderabo
Submitted on 9/23/2003
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cd to the directory in question so that you can use . in the find command, then, for example, find . \( ! -name . -prune \) -name \*.c -print

Answer by yogi
Submitted on 10/20/2003
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# pwd / # find . -depth -name <pattern> -print For example : # pwd / # find . -depth -name umount -print ./usr/lib/fs/cachefs/umount ./usr/lib/fs/nfs/umount ./usr/sbin/umount ./etc/umount ./sbin/umount

Answer by Nishant
Submitted on 1/24/2006
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find . -type d \| awk -F/ '{print $2}'\|sort -u

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