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# 1  
Old 01-23-2008
Help with Find command

I have some files and directories in a folder.
I would like to search only the files and not look within the directory or subdirectory.

how can i do that using find command.

Thank you
# 2  
Old 01-23-2008
Why do you need find command for that.
You can do it with "ls" command.
# 3  
Old 01-23-2008
the idea is to find only the files and then move it to some specific location.
The logic is already in place which uses find command to do it, now i want to restrict it for looking into directories.
# 4  
Old 01-23-2008
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Originally Posted by rudoraj
I have some files and directories in a folder.
I would like to search only the files and not look within the directory or subdirectory.

how can i do that using find command.

Thank you
hey,

Try following command...

Find . "filename" type -f -name -print

this command will find all the files in the present location/directory, so you can first move to desired location and then hit the above command to get the files.

Otherwise you can use like : "/clocal/yourlocation/directory"

Thanks.Smilie
# 5  
Old 01-25-2008
What do you do about links then?
# 6  
Old 02-02-2008
Hi,

I already do something like this when searching for a particular file.

find * -prune ! -type d -name 'filename' | xargs -I{} mv {} $target_dir
* tells find to look at everything in the current directory.
-prune - tells it to ignore anything in sub-directories
! -type d - lists everything that is not a directory.
The output is then passed to xargs to actually move the files
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