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find command - korn shell
Name: palmac Date: September 16, 2003 at 02:43:09 Pacific OS: Solaris CPU/Ram: sparc
Comment:
Hi, Anyone knows how to use the 'find' command using a specified depth level within the directoy hierarchy? for instance: find * -type f -name
this will search including all subdirectories, is there a way to specify the level of depth used? Thank you
Name: Nails Date: September 16, 2003 at 19:26:29 Pacific
Reply:
Hi:
The GNU version of find supports maxdepths. From the Red Hat 7.1 man page:
-maxdepth levels Descend at most levels (a non-negative integer) levels of directories below the command line arguments. `-maxdepth 0' means only apply the tests and actions to the command line arguments.
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