how to use `find' non-recursively?

[Narayan S. Raja]

In article <1991Jan28.011044.16609 at ux1>, (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.


If you will never search for any property 
other than name, plain old

    ls -d abc*

should do the job.


Otherwise, the following should work, unless
file abc* is itself a directory:

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

If file abc* might possibly be a directory,

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

will work, but find will recursively search in
directories named abc*.



Narayan Sriranga Raja.