Don't worry, I think everyone stumbles on this "bug" sooner or later.
-prune tells find to only look at the directories specified at the command line, in your case your current working directory, and nothing else. If you run it as
Code:
# find ./* -type -d -prune
it will check the contents of the current directory (and nothing below)
So I fell out of my chair when I realized how ./* made the world of difference. By the way, this performed exactly what I originally intended. Pludi, YOU'RE THE MAN!! Anybody who tells you otherwise probably has parents who are brother and sister.
I do have a question for you though...
I understand that sh evaluates ./* to mean everything below the current working directory, but I would naturally assume (.) to include the same. So where did I go wrong? Can you understand the error in my comprehension? Iunno--I guess that's just the way I understood the man page.
Radoulov,
you gave some very good solutions too, namely the option negating anything named . (! -name .). Thanks!
I don't have maxdepth option, I have whichever version of find ships with Solaris 9.x
Hi All,
I am trying to find files in a directory and don't want to search in the sub directories and using the command
find . \( ! -name . -prune \) -mtime +1 -name '*.log'
and is working fine.
But when I am trying with absolute path then is not working like
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if i give,
find .
o/p is
.
./t4
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./t1/t2
./t1/t2/t3
./t1/t2/t3/t4
./t1/t2/t4
./t1/t4
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Hi , Kindly help me out .:)
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find .
o/p is
.
./t4
./t1
./t1/t2
./t1/t2/t3
./t1/t2/t3/t4
./t1/t2/t4
./t1/t4
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Hi
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I have tried:
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
pwd
PWD(1) BSD General Commands Manual PWD(1)NAME
pwd -- return working directory name
SYNOPSIS
pwd [-LP]
DESCRIPTION
The pwd utility writes the absolute pathname of the current working directory to the standard output.
Some shells may provide a builtin pwd command which is similar or identical to this utility. Consult the builtin(1) manual page.
The options are as follows:
-L Display the logical current working directory.
-P Display the physical current working directory (all symbolic links resolved).
If no options are specified, the -P option is assumed.
ENVIRONMENT
Environment variables used by pwd:
PWD Logical current working directory.
DIAGNOSTICS
The pwd utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
STANDARDS
The pwd utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
SEE ALSO builtin(1), cd(1), csh(1), sh(1), getcwd(3)BUGS
In csh(1) the command dirs is always faster because it is built into that shell. However, it can give a different answer in the rare case
that the current directory or a containing directory was moved after the shell descended into it.
The -L option does not work unless the PWD environment variable is exported by the shell.
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