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har
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Jan 29, 2007, 11:48 AM
 
hello,
I'm able to find file in /tmp directory and able to delete file,but its searching sub directories and also deleting.
How do i restrict find command in searching sub directories.
i mean i want to search in /tmp directory only,but not in sub-directory of /tmp/xxx..
any idea...
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har
     
Hal Itosis
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Jan 29, 2007, 01:48 PM
 
-maxdepth 1
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jprice
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Feb 5, 2007, 05:59 PM
 
or

ls /tmp/file

or

ls /tmp|grep -i -e "pattern"
     
   
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