FIND command

anil1j · #1 (**permalink**) 12-06-2005

I am trying to delete all *.log files in current folder. Something like this.
find . -name "*.log" -atime +3 | xargs -i {} rm {}

But the problem is, it deletes *.log files in subdirectories too. I do not want to do that.

My question is "How can I exclude subdirectories in FIND command?"

Please help me!
Thank you

jim mcnamara · #2 (**permalink**) 12-06-2005

Will this work for you?

Code:

for file in `ls -1 *.log`
do
    rm -f $file
done

anil1j · #3 (**permalink**) 12-06-2005

Thanks Jim

dasreboot · #4 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005

In the gnu version of find there is a --depth option that can be used to limit how deep into subdiretories that it will find.

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