Hello, I am using ksh93 (/usr/dt/bin/dtksh) on Solaris and am stuck when trying to use find with the -prune option.
I need to search a directory (supplied in a variable) for files matching a certain pattern, but ignore any sub-directories.
I have tried:
which produces no output. If I cd to that directory and issue this command:
it works as expected since it is working on a list of filenames.
Why doesn't it work when using a full path? I suspect it is being omitted by the -type d -prune option since I am using a full path? If so, how else to do it?
Oh and the sub-directories could change so I can't exclude them specifically in the find command.
Thanks for your consideration,
Gary
Last edited by gary_w; 01-03-2012 at 04:52 PM..
Reason: added more info
No it is a full pathname. Note that using a period while in the directory does not work either (no output):
where this does work (my test file is found):
I assume because the period is a directory and the splat is a list of files?
I think the problem is that you're using -prune with a full path which behaves as if you were using a dot.
So it means it will go 0 levels down looking for the files. If you want the command to go down just one level you have to explicitly "add one more level" by appending "/*" to the path.
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One way of achieving the effect of "-maxdepth 1" is to work from the directory above the one you are actually interrogating. Then apply the "-prune" to stop find searching deeper.
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