May be a simple question for experts here....


I need to get the list of files older than 30 days in the current folder. I tried "find", but it searches recursively in all the sub directories.

Can I restrict the recursive search and extract the files only from current directory ?

to find file in DIR
use
find $DIR -type f -atime +30 -print
hope it will suffice

See if this works:

find . -mtime +30 \( ! -name . -prune \)

Both the above scripts are digging down the sub directories. Any other altrenative ?

Try....

Thanks a lot Ygor, this one is working.

Again thanks everybody.

Hmm... the -prune option is supposed to be what prevents going into subdirectories! At least, it works on ksh... what shell are you using? Ygor had a great work-around idea, but I'd think it would be faster if there's a ton of subdirectories to use -prune, rather than grabbing all the files in all the subdirectories, then eliminating everything except the current directory.