How to only find files in a given directory and ignore subdirectories using bash

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I m running the find command to find certain files  but some files in sub-directories have the same name which I want to ignore  I m interested in files patterns like this   dev abc-scanner   dev abc-cash       The command  find  dev  -name  abc-    What s being returned   dev abc-scanner  dev abc-cash              dev  udev names abc-scanner  dev  udev names abc-cash  I want to ignore the latter files   dev  udev

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find  dev -maxdepth 1 -name  abc-     Does not work for me  It return nothing  If I just do     it gives me all the files in directory below the one I m working in on   find  dev -maxdepth 1 -name    root  -type  f  -size  100k -ls   Return nothing with     instead I get list of all  big  files in my directory as well as the rootfiles  directory where I store old ones   Continuing  This works   find    -maxdepth 1 -name    root  -type  f  -size  100k -ls 564751   71 -rw-r--r--   1 snyder   bfactory   115739 May 21 12 39   R24eTightPiPi771052-55 root 565197  105 -rw-r--r--   1 snyder   bfactory   150719 May 21 14 27   R24eTightPiPi771106-2 root 565023   94 -rw-r--r--   1 snyder   bfactory   134180 May 21 12 59   R24eTightPiPi77999-109 root 719678   82 -rw-r--r--   1 snyder   bfactory   121149 May 21 12 42   R24eTightPiPi771098-10 root 564029  140 -rw-r--r--   1 snyder   bfactory   170181 May 21 14 14   combo77v root   Apparently  dev means directory of interest  But    is needed  not just    The need for the   was not obvious even after I figured out what  dev meant more or less   I couldn t respond as a comment because I have no  reputation

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If you just want to limit the find to the first level you can do    find  dev -maxdepth 1 -name  abc-         or if you particularly want to exclude the  udev directory  you can do    find  dev -name   udev  -prune -o -name  abc-   -print

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This may do what you want   find  dev      -name  dev -prune    -type f -print

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Is there any particular reason that you need to use find  You can just use ls to find files that match a pattern in a directory   ls  dev abc-    If you do need to use find  you can use the -maxdepth 1 switch to only apply to the specified directory

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I got here with a bit more general problem - I wanted to find files in directories matching pattern but not in their subdirectories  My solution  assuming we re looking for all cpp files living directly in arch directories   find   -path  quot   arch     quot  -prune -o -path  quot   arch   cpp quot  -print I couldn t use maxdepth since it limited search in the first place  and didn t know names of subdirectories that I wanted to exclude

[bash] How to only find files in a given directory, and ignore subdirectories using bash

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