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From: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: how to use `find' non-recursively?
Message-ID: <3334@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 91 19:49:53 GMT
References: <1991Jan28.011044.16609@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Jan28.011044.16609@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> eer36024@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik Reuter) writes:
>What I want to do is to search the current directory for all files matching
>a certain name, say -name abc\* , but I *do not* want find to descend into
>any subdirectories.
> 
>find . -type d -prune -o -name abc\* -print
> 
>does not seem to work, since it prunes *everything*, including the . directory.
> 
>Any suggestions?

find . -type d ! -name . -prune -o -name abc\* -print

(excludes "." from the "-prune" restriction)

>
>--
>Erik Reuter, Internet: e-reuter@uiuc.edu  UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!e-reuter


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