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Using find * was suggested from another source. At first it seemed to do what was needed. In fact, executing it in a directory where none of the file names contain spaces or something that's...

Been busy in meetings and calling it a day - finally. Will take a look at the recent suggestions tomorrow and let you know the results.

Again, thanks for the suggestions/examples. At the very...

I didn't mention this is AIX 5.3.

Apparently -maxdepth is not a valid option on this flavor of AIX. :(
# find . -maxdepth 1 -prune -type f
find: 0652-017 -maxdepth is not a valid option.

This eliminates the The parameter list is too long error.
find . -type f -prune

-type f ahead of -prune

However, it descends into the subdirectories, which violates one of the primary...

Thanks for the reply, however ...

# find ./ -prune -print
# find ./ -prune
./
# find ./ -prune -print
./
# find ./* -prune -print
ksh: /usr/bin/find: 0403-027 The parameter list is too long....

I'm sure this has been answered before, but my searches have not turned up the right solution. :confused:

I need to remove files in a directory, without descending into subdirectories, older than...

Mutt 1.2.3.1i
AIX 5.3.12.1

We need to send email to external addresses. But are having problems with the sent-from hostname. They're going out with @server.mycompany.com. We need them to be...

We've been emailing uuencode'd PDF files as attachments with mailx for quite sometime with no problems. Recently we've expanded the volume and have intermittent problems with recipients unable to...

Thanks to both of you for the replies.

Chubler, thanks for the reminder the -b can appear anywhere as well.

Solved!

I need to grab information from the output of the ps command.

For each line of ps output that contains _progres -b I need to get the word that follows -p. The "-p" can be anywhere after "_progres...