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Snouser

08-01-2008 09:03 PM

find -name command finds the wrong files

Hi

When I'm running this command.

find -name '*.zip'
I want to found zip files in the current directory, but for some reasons 'find' searches in subdirectory.

How do I make it to search in just the current directory?

weibullguy

08-01-2008 09:20 PM

Use the -maxdepth option.

Code:

find -maxdepth 1 -name '*.zip'

lwasserm

08-01-2008 09:45 PM

For the current directory why not just use

ls -d *.zip

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