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Old 08-21-2009
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i want to find only the file t4 in directory t3. i am in dir t . the tree is as follows.

if i give,

find .
o/p is
.
./t4
./t1
./t1/t2
./t1/t2/t3
./t1/t2/t3/t4
./t1/t2/t4
./t1/t4

directories are like t/t1/t2/t3 and each directory has file t4.
my question is , i want to find file t4 inside directory t3 without looking in to the other sub directories.on for

how will i use -prune option for that?

i want an o/p like this:
./t1/t2/t3/t4
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NAME
ddir - display hierarchical directory tree SYNOPSIS
ddir [options] DIR DESCRIPTION
Display an indented directory tree using ASCII graphical characters to represent the hierarchical structure. The directories to include or exclude can be specified with command line options. Ddir is a Perl implementation of the tree(1) program. OPTIONS
-d, --dir Display only directories. -h, --help Print text help --help-exclude Print default exclude path value when --exclude-vcs is used. --help-html Print help in HTML format. --help-man Print help in manual page man(1) format. -i, --include REGEXP Include files mathing regexp. The match is done against whole path. The option can be used multiple times. If this option is not supplied, every file is automatically included. The matches can be further filtered by using options --exclude. -v, --verbose LEVEL Print informational messages. Increase numeric LEVEL for more verbosity. -V, --version Print contact and version information. -x, --exclude REGEXP Ignore files mathing regexp. The match is done against whole path. The option can be used multiple times. This option is applied after possible --include matches. -C, --exclude-vcs Exclude version control directories. See --help-exclude. EXAMPLES
Show directory tree by excluding version control directories. Display only directories: ddir --x-vcs --dir . . +--doc/ | +--manual/ +--bin/ TROUBLESHOOTING
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