04-09-2008
Adding -maxdepth 1 would do the trick, this way the find command only searches 1 level deep in the directory structure.
The complete command looks like this :
find /path/to/directory -mtime -5 -maxdepth 1 -ok rm -f {} \
Edit: I noticed this is an old thread, but I wanted to add a solution for completeness and to help people who would stumble upon this thread in the future.
Last edited by ruleant; 04-09-2008 at 05:50 AM..
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