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Old 04-07-2011
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Originally Posted by ctsgnb
@stumpy

I am not sure to understand what entries you expect or not in your output :

Could you please show us an example of what kind of entries you want to reach and what kind of entries you do not want ?
find ????10??_*.dat -type f -mtime +91
works as I want it to but I want to use find with the path and -name syntax but without searching sub-directories - which seems to be the more correct way.
Eg.
find . -name '????10??_*.dat' -type f -mtime +91
returns all files that match the pattern in both the current directory and all sub-directories.

I have seen loads of info on the net about -maxdepth but thats not available to me on solaris.

Basically I want for find all files the match a specified pattern - but only in a specified directory - do NOT search sub-directories.
# 16  
Old 04-07-2011
With acknowledgement to the ideas and discussion in posts #6 and #7.

Possible method: Use "ls -1d" (which does not descend the tree) to generate the file list then examine each file with find to determine the age. This method is inefficient for large numbers of files but easier to debug.

Code:
ls -1d ????10??_*.dat 2>/dev/null | while read filename
do
        if [ -f "${filename}" ]
        then
              find "${filename}" -type f -mtime +91 -print
        fi
done

Ps. The posts suggesting "find ... -prune" are the correct approach but only post #13 is close.

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