I use following two methods to find files in a directory but not its
sub-directories on HP-UX B.11.11.

$ find /home/jhl -type f ! -path './*/*' -name "*.c"
$ find /home/jhl -type f -prune -name "*.c"

But both present me with files in sub-directories.

Can you teach me how to find files in current directory only? Thank you.

lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com wrote:
> I use following two methods to find files in a directory but not its
> sub-directories on HP-UX B.11.11.
>
> $ find /home/jhl -type f ! -path './*/*' -name "*.c"
> $ find /home/jhl -type f -prune -name "*.c"
>
> But both present me with files in sub-directories.
>
> Can you teach me how to find files in current directory only? Thank you.

Hi,

Try the following:
$ find /home/jhl -path "/home/jhl/*" -prune -name "*.c"

Jon

Jon Fife wrote:
> lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I use following two methods to find files in a directory but not its
> > sub-directories on HP-UX B.11.11.
> >
> > $ find /home/jhl -type f ! -path './*/*' -name "*.c"
> > $ find /home/jhl -type f -prune -name "*.c"
> >
> > But both present me with files in sub-directories.
> >
> > Can you teach me how to find files in current directory only? Thank you.
>
> Try the following:
> $ find /home/jhl -path "/home/jhl/*" -prune -name "*.c"

Thank you.

Your method works on Linux. I will try it later on HP-UX.

I've learnt following two commands from other people. When I put real
absolute pathname instead of . (dot) after find, the find command will
find files in sub-directories still, so I change the directory then
issue find command with . (dot), I don't understand why it works this
way.

$ cd /home/jhl \
find . -name "*" -type f ! -path '.*/*/*'

$ cd /home/jhl \
find . -name "*" -type f \( -path '.*/*/*' -prune -o -print \)

Jon Fife wrote:
> lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I use following two methods to find files in a directory but not its
> > sub-directories on HP-UX B.11.11.
> >
> > $ find /home/jhl -type f ! -path './*/*' -name "*.c"
> > $ find /home/jhl -type f -prune -name "*.c"
> >
> > But both present me with files in sub-directories.
> >
> > Can you teach me how to find files in current directory only? Thank you.
>
> Hi,
>
> Try the following:
> $ find /home/jhl -path "/home/jhl/*" -prune -name "*.c"

Thank you.

I can put full pathname in the pathname list of find now.

$ find /home/jhl -name "*.txt" -maxdepth 1

$ p='/home/jhl'; d='/*'; \
find "$p" -path "$p$d" -prune -name "*" -type f

$ p='/home/jhl'; d='/*/*'; \
find "$p" -name "*.c" -type f \( -path "$p$d" -prune -o -print \)

$ p='/home/jhl'; d='/*/*'; \
find "$p" -name "*.h" -type f ! -path "$p$d"