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# 8  
Old 10-31-2003
You almost had it right, oombera...

find . \( ! -name . -prune \) -mtime +30
# 9  
Old 10-31-2003
Its great. Perderabo's solution works. But can somebody explain how the order of options is changing the output here ??
# 10  
Old 10-31-2003
i didnt know about the prune option.

it seems to be an order of presidence useing Perderabo version.

find the files. then only select the ones that are 30days old.

vs. find anything that is 30 days old then (this part is negated?) find files in the current directory.
# 11  
Old 10-31-2003
find does stuff in order.

With
find . -mtime +30 \( ! -name . -prune \)
a candidate entry in . must first pass the "-mtime +30" test. Only then do we see if we want to prune it or not.
# 12  
Old 03-29-2006
hi for this command
find $PWD -type f -mtime +30 -print|grep -Ev "$PWD/.*/"

can i know the usage for E in grep -Ev
this produce error when i use it.
grep: illegal option -- E
Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
# 13  
Old 03-29-2006
You must have a very old grep. -E is required by posix. It allows extended regular expressions. You might have an egrep program that can do extended regular expressions.
# 14  
Old 05-29-2006
find -maxdepth 1
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but seems to me if all you want to do is prevent recursing into subdirectories you could also do this with

find -maxdepth 1
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