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Chofoteddy
Asked: 2020-12-15 08:42:00 +0800 CST 2020-12-15 08:42:00 +0800 CST

How to search indicating the depth (n deep)?

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I need to search for all the files that have a hyphen followed by the number 2015 in a maximum depth of 1 directory, this would be equivalent to the current directory and another within a folder without going to its sub-folders. Taking into account that I have a structure like the following:

./
- index-2015/
-- otrodir/
-- assets-2015/
-- tmp/ 
- contacto-2015/
- contacto/
- index/
- subdominios/
-- subd1/ <-- A partir de aquí ya no debería listar las coincidencias
--- hoja1-2015/
--- hoja2-2015/

command in use

To list all directories of the current level I'm on (with no matching sub-directories) I use:

ls | grep '\w-2015'

The problem with that is that it lists the files for me too, another solution is:

ls -d *-2015

It doesn't list me in subdirectories though. I used the following command but it didn't return any results:

find ./ -type d -regex '/\w-2015/'
bash

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The following command will use a maximum depth of 2 by using the option -maxdepth, that is, the folder of the path you specify and one more level:

    $ find . -type f -name "*-2015" -maxdepth 2

    Example:

    In my project I have:

    $ tree
.
├── administracion
│   ├── admin.py
│   ├── ajax.py
│   ├── forms.py
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── migrations
│   │   └── __init__.py
│   ├── models.py
│   ├── tests.py
│   ├── urls.py
│   └── views.py

$ find . -type f -name "*.py" -maxdepth 2
./administracion/views.py
./administracion/urls.py
./administracion/__init__.py
./administracion/models.py
./administracion/admin.py
./administracion/ajax.py
./administracion/tests.py
./administracion/forms.py

    It doesn't go down to the folder migrations. But if I use:

    $ find . -type f -name "*.py" -maxdepth 3
./administracion/views.py
./administracion/urls.py
./administracion/__init__.py
./administracion/models.py
./administracion/admin.py
./administracion/ajax.py
./administracion/migrations/__init__.py
./administracion/tests.py
./administracion/forms.py
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