unix - find without recursion

Question

Is it possible to use the find command in some way that it will not recurse into the sub-directories? For example,

DirsRoot
  |-->SubDir1
  |    |-OtherFile1
  |-->SubDir2
  |    |-OtherFile2
  |-File1
  |-File2

And the result of something like find DirsRoot --do-not-recurse -type f will be only File1, File2?

Answer 1

I think you'll get what you want with the -maxdepth 1 option, based on your current command structure. If not, you can try looking at the man page for find.

Relevant entry (for convenience's sake):

-maxdepth levels
          Descend at most levels (a non-negative integer) levels of direc-
          tories below the command line arguments.   `-maxdepth  0'  means
          only  apply the tests and actions to the command line arguments.

Your options basically are:

# Do NOT show hidden files (beginning with ".", i.e., .*):
find DirsRoot/* -maxdepth 0 -type f

Or:

#  DO show hidden files:
find DirsRoot/ -maxdepth 1 -type f