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My setup is as following:

folder structure

dir
 |--correctfile1
 |--correctfile2
 |--correctfile3
 |--subdir1
   |--wrongfile1
   |--wrongfile2
   |--wrongfile3
 |--subdir2
 |--subdir3

I need to find out if there are files in dir that are older than 3 minutes. This means I should ignore folders subdir1, subdir2 and subdir3 and only search in the main directory dir

I have following one-liner

find $dir -mmin +3 -type f

but this prints also the files from subdir1

Some extra info:

AIX 5.3

find command does not have -maxdepth, -mindepth, -or, -not or -path options

The manpage: http://textuploader.com/oe0r

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    +1 for "find command does not have -maxdepth, -not or -path options" info...
    – Hauke Laging
    Commented Dec 11, 2014 at 14:47
  • Why find does not have that options? can you upload the man page of that and post the link? may be it use another option for that.
    – αғsнιη
    Commented Dec 11, 2014 at 14:48
  • @KasiyA: I added the manpage
    – Noosrep
    Commented Dec 11, 2014 at 14:53

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A portable way to prevent find from recursing is to execute the -prune action on directories other than the toplevel directory.

find "$dir" \! -name "$(basename -- "$dir")" -type d -prune -o -mmin +3 -type f -print
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  • No filenames, just the name of $dir so in the above example: dir
    – Noosrep
    Commented Dec 11, 2014 at 15:17
  • @TimothyPersoon And if you add -print after -type f?
    – Hauke Laging
    Commented Dec 11, 2014 at 15:22
  • then it returns nothing
    – Noosrep
    Commented Dec 11, 2014 at 15:23
  • @TimothyPersoon Are there files in dir which match -mmin +3? Does your find $dir -mmin +3 -type f return files which are not in a subdirectory?
    – Hauke Laging
    Commented Dec 11, 2014 at 15:25
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    I'd use find $dir \( ! -name $(basename $dir) -type d -prune \) -o -mmin +3 -type f -print
    – wurtel
    Commented Dec 11, 2014 at 15:35

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