Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

Am trying for a script which should delete more than 15 days older files in my current directory.Am using the below piece of code:

"find /tmp -type f -name "pattern" -mtime +15 -exec /usr/bin/ls -altr {} \;"
"find /tmp -type f -name "pattern" -mtime +15 -exec /usr/bin/rm -f {} \;"

But it is exploring sub directories too which i dont want have permission and dont want it to happen too.I just want to find and delete the files in the current directory alone.

Could any one of you please help me....
waiting for help!!

Thanks in advance...

You can add the "-prune" switch which will not have descent the search to subdirectories.

Thanks for the reply..
could you please give me the complete syntax for my requirement...

can anyone pls helpme out in this..non recursive search in the current directory only
problem descrobed above..

Thanks

Do a

Code:

man find

and you will get your answer. You can also check the maxdepth option.

Thanks..

Sorry max depth option is not avilable for me...I have gone thru man pages..but i could not find any way can u pls be more explanatory...

Code:

find . -path '/directory/not/to/include' -prune -o -name "*" | xargs grep "pattern"

if you have many directories to exclude you can do something like this..

Code:

find . \( -path "/dir/to/exclude" -prune -o -path "/dir/to/exclude/" \) -name "*" | xargs grep "pattern"

Thanks
Namish