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# 1  
Old 07-28-2010
find files on first level folder
Hi:

I have:

Code:
folderA
   |----folderB
              |----folder1
              |----folder2
              |----folder3
                       |----folder3.1

Question:

How can I find *.txt ONLY from /folderA/folderB/ and not the others folder1,2,3??

I tried:
Code:
 find /folderA/folderB/ -name *.txt

but it didn't work.

thanks
Israel.
# 2  
Old 07-28-2010
Use :


Code:
find /folderA/folderB/ -name *.txt -prune

or

Code:
find /folderA/folderB/ -name *.txt -maxdepth 1

# 3  
Old 07-28-2010
Hi,

Code:
 find /folderA/folderB/ -name -maxdepth 1 *.txt

does this. BTW: this will not work correct, if you have any files with .txt in the directory where you call the find command. The better way:

Code:
 find /folderA/folderB/ -name -maxdepth 1 '*.txt'

This will prevent the shell from expanding the wildcard.

best regards
Andreas
# 4  
Old 07-28-2010
Hi dennis and danimath,

Sorry, I forgot to say I'm on AIX, and -maxdepth is not a valid option. And using prune didn't work either... :-(

thanks to both

regards
Israel.
# 5  
Old 07-28-2010
Code:
for f in /home/amitsahr/
do
   [ -f "$f" ]   | ls *txt
done

# 6  
Old 07-28-2010
Why not to try ls ?

Code:
ls -1 /folderA/folderB/*.txt

# 7  
Old 07-28-2010
And if you need file under folderA also

Code:
for f in folderA/*txt folderA/folderB/*txt; do [ -f $f ] && echo $f; done

 
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