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find lists current directory

Hi,

I am using find with -ctime to find files created in the last 3 days.
It lists all the files properly but also includes . (current dir) which is unnecessary.
How do I avoid it?
O/S - CentOs 4
command : find . -ctime -3
result :

. (<----Notice the . representing current dir)
./20:00:48.14-12-07.abc0.log
./22:45:32.14-12-07.abc1.log
./23:50:52.14-12-07.abc2.log
./00:14:08.15-12-07.abc3.log
./00:15:27.15-12-07.abc4.log
./00:18:16.15-12-07.abc5.log
./00:21:47.15-12-07.abc6.log
./20:00:31.16-12-07.abc7.log

By the way, find command is supposed to find only files right...? Why does it include the current directory in it?

find will find anything if you don't specify what you're looking for. Thus:

Code:

find ./ -type f -ctime -3

will search for only files (-type f), thus omitting any directories, including the current one.

That was so easy. I am kinda new to this so..
Anyways thank you very much.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kaprasanna (Post 2993118)

That was so easy. I am kinda new to this so..
Anyways thank you very much.

No worries :)

I still consider myself new :)