[ug-bosug] 'find' -maxdepth alternate

[Anil Gulecha]

On 1/23/07, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote:
>
> Anil Gulecha wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 1/23/07, *Moinak Ghosh* <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com
> > <mailto: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.
>
>    It does print. The default for find is to print - try it. And you can
> provide
>    any arbitrary maxdepth.


I should have phrased my sentence better. yes, it does print, but the
script traverses the _whole_ file system, printing _only_ what we ask. This
takes a lot of time for say / or /etc/

the
find /DIR/. \( -type d \! -name . -prune \) -o -type f -print command only
looks for the required files and is thus very fast.

Regards
Anil
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