Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I am using the below query to find files from a Directory:

SOURCE_DIR--Directory

Files in the Directory:

ABC.log
XYZ.out

The SOURCE_DIR has subdirectory....

when i use the below command...

find /apps/informatica/node1/scripts/test '(' -name '*.log' -o -name '*.out' ')'

Its displaying the files from SOURCE_DIR along with files from SubDirectory.

My requirement is i want only files from SOURCE_DIR not the Sub direcotry files..

Thanks in advance

Since you're on Linux, just add -maxdepth 1 before the '('

find takes an argument -maxdepth. Here is what the manpage says about maxdepth: So, you can use -maxdepth 1 as an additional arg to you find command.

- GP

That option's specific to GNU find, usually only available in Linux

Thanks Corona688....It worked....

@Carona688, thanks for pointing that out. Never having used it before, I assumed that -depth works similarly on Unix. Just found out, otherwise. So how would one go about doing something similar in, say, HP-UX?

Touchy fiddling with the -prune option, perhaps. I have yet to manage a 1:1 equivalent.

You find this sort of thing all the time in UNIX vs Linux utilities. Small little GNU extensions to utilities for pretty obvious features that the UNIX standard doesn't cover, often bafflingly difficult to replace. The -d option to GNU date, which prints whatever date you tell it to, in particular is badly missed...