02-22-2001
from the GNU find man page:
Quote:
find - search for files in a directory hierarchy
....... omitted much ........
-maxdepth levels
Descend at most levels (a non-negative integer) levels of directories below the command line arguments.
`-maxdepth 0' means only apply the tests and actions to the command line arguments
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