Hi every1,

There is a folder with .lst files which has email id's of our project group.
I want to find files which has my email id starting with sachin but i dont want find command to search subdirectories. I have read about prune but i didnt understand that. I am pretty new in this field. Please help.

The "-prune" command prevents subdirectories from being opened. So it's pretty worthless to run "find . -prune" since it only returns ".". You need this:

This runs "find" against every entry in the current directory (since "*" is expanded by the shell). No subdirectories are traversed. Any files that are owned by user "root" will match and be displayed. Note that "*" does not include hidden files, and that "find *" will fail if there are too many files in the current directory.

Hi.

Check your man find page to see if it accepts -maxdepth 1 -- that would do what you want in GNU/Linux and FreeBSD ... cheers, drl

how about:

Or even:

Hi.

Are we looking for filenames that begin with with the string sachin or are we looking in files for the string sachin? ... cheers, drl

To search file names I would use;

ls -ltra *whatever*

to search within the files I would use;

grep -i whatever *

-i basically meaning ignore case.