[ug-bosug] 'find' -maxdepth alternate

[Anil Gulecha]

On 1/23/07, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote:
>
> you'd need to use the following shell snippet:
>
> find . | while read f
> do
>     cnt=`echo $f | sed 's/\// /g' | wc -w`
>     if [ $cnt -lt <maxdepth> ]
>     then
>         echo $f
>     fi
> done
>
> AFAIK there is no direct replacement.


In this case we are traversing the entire structure, just not printing it
out. this is unacceptable as the script will be looking for specific files,
and taring them up.
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