I have some files and directories in a folder.
I would like to search only the files and not look within the directory or subdirectory.

how can i do that using find command.

Thank you

Why do you need find command for that.
You can do it with "ls" command.

the idea is to find only the files and then move it to some specific location.
The logic is already in place which uses find command to do it, now i want to restrict it for looking into directories.

hey,

Try following command...

Find . "filename" type -f -name -print

this command will find all the files in the present location/directory, so you can first move to desired location and then hit the above command to get the files.

Otherwise you can use like : "/clocal/yourlocation/directory"

Thanks.

What do you do about links then?

Hi,

I already do something like this when searching for a particular file.

find * -prune ! -type d -name 'filename' | xargs -I{} mv {} $target_dir

* tells find to look at everything in the current directory.
-prune - tells it to ignore anything in sub-directories
! -type d - lists everything that is not a directory.

The output is then passed to xargs to actually move the files