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Hi every1,

There is a folder with .lst files which has email id's of our project group.
I want to find files which has my email id starting with sachin but i dont want find command to search subdirectories. I have read about prune but i didnt understand that. I am pretty new in this field. Please help.

The "-prune" command prevents subdirectories from being opened. So it's pretty worthless to run "find . -prune" since it only returns ".". You need this:

Code:

cd /mydir/mypath
find * -prune -user root

This runs "find" against every entry in the current directory (since "*" is expanded by the shell). No subdirectories are traversed. Any files that are owned by user "root" will match and be displayed. Note that "*" does not include hidden files, and that "find *" will fail if there are too many files in the current directory.

Hi.

Check your man find page to see if it accepts -maxdepth 1 -- that would do what you want in GNU/Linux and FreeBSD ... cheers, drl

how about:

Code:

cd /path/to/dir
grep sachin *

Or even:

Code:

grep 'pattern' /path/to/dir/*.lst

Hi.

Are we looking for filenames that begin with with the string sachin or are we looking in files for the string sachin? ... cheers, drl

thanks for your replies. i know grep but in order to have better understanding of prune i posted this question.