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How to seach in specific directories?

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How can I perform a search on parent directories and not child?

I need to search and gzip files that are in /Home/Parent, but there are subdirectories under Parent ( /Home/Parent/Today). I don't want to gzip anything in the "Today" folder, just stop at the parent. There are about 50 Parent folders I need to search in and each one have a "Today" child directory.

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use find command

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find ../users \( ! -name users -prune \) -type f -name "filename" ;

where users is your specific dir

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I don't have a specific directory. There are about 50 parent folders that have different names and I need to search in each of them while ignoring their child directories.

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