"find command" to find the files in the current directories but not in the "subdir" - Page 2 - Shell Programming and Scripting

cooldude · #8 07-22-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by vijayq8

Hi,
it should work man, i tried in my unix box then only i posted the reply. see my result.

[mipl@subversion ~]$ ls
coding dead.letter s2.sh scripting sname sorted_names test test1 vijay
[mipl@subversion ~]$ ls -a
. .bash_profile dead.letter .kde sorted_names .viminfo
.. .bashrc .emacs s2.sh test .xemacs
.bash_history .canna .emacs.d scripting test1 .zshrc
.bash_logout coding .gtkrc sname vijay
[mipl@subversion ~]$ find *.*
dead.letter
s2.sh
[mipl@subversion ~]$

Hope you clear now.

Thanks & Regards
Vijay.

Vijay, that does not work if a period is in the middle. See the following:

Code:

/tmp/tmp> ls -l
total 16
drwxr-xr-x   2   common       240 Jul 22 09:42 asdf.jkl
-rw-r--r--   1   common         0 Jul 22 09:40 one
-rw-r--r--   1   common         0 Jul 22 09:40 two
/tmp/tmp>
/tmp/tmp> find . *.*
.
./one
./two
./asdf.jkl
./asdf.jkl/three
./asdf.jkl/four
asdf.jkl
asdf.jkl/three
asdf.jkl/four
/tmp/tmp>
/tmp/tmp> find *.*
asdf.jkl
asdf.jkl/three
asdf.jkl/four

Again, you may think this is uncommon, but what you suggested did not work the first time I tried it in the directory I was already working in!

BMDan · #9 07-22-2008

Typical would be:

Code:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f

Drop the "-type f" if you want the directories to be listed.

Alternately, if you also want symlinks, pipes and the other folderol:

Code:

find . -maxdepth 1 -not -type d

cooldude · #10 07-22-2008

BMDan, maxdepth is not standard; it only works on GNU find. My Solaris workstation does not have GNU find. Instead, a variation of a command posted by Perderabo should be used:

Code:

find . \( ! -name . -prune ! -type d \)

I think this covers all the cases.

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