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Old 08-17-2008
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Originally Posted by mnnarendra View Post
I need help with tweaking the unix find command. currently the find command searches all the directories under $div/users modified in the last 1 day.

find $div/users -type d -mtime +1

I need this changed to find only subdirectories and sub-subdirectories modified in the last 1 day under $div/users. the find should go only two levels, and not 4 levels below it is currently doing.
check out for the option maxdepth from find

-maxdepth levels