Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 00:36:56 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: Matt White <mwhite@freehold.pc.cs.cmu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limiting find's descent depth Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.960705003610.25363A-100000@ki.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960704235632.28596B-100000@freehold.pc.cs.cmu.edu>
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On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, Matt White wrote: > Does anyone know of a good way to keep find from descending more than N > directories when doing a search? from the man page (note: this is from gnu find, I think): -maxdepth levels Descend at most levels (a non-negative integer) levels of directories below the command line argu- ments. `-maxdepth 0' means only apply the tests and actions to the command line arguments. Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org
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