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/...
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
This may do what you want:
find /dev \( ! -name /dev -prune \) -type f -print
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 "*/arch/*/*" -prune -o -path "*/arch/*.cpp" -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.
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.
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.
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