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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
To: Matt White <mwhite@freehold.pc.cs.cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Limiting find's descent depth
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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