From: Bjarni Juliusson on
Stephane CHAZELAS wrote:
> 2009-10-15, 10:34(+02), Bjarni Juliusson:
>>> The first argument to find is a path not a file so you don't use the "/*" ie
>>>
>>> find $DIR_TO_CLEAN -prune etc.
>>>
>>> Not sure if that would be enough,
>>
>> Make that "-maxdepth 1" to never descend into any subdirectories.
> [...]
>
> -maxdepth is a GNU extension (also recognised by some BSDs), it
> won't work on Solaris. See the \( -name . -o -prune \) standard
> equivalent (or ! -name . -prune for the standard equivalent of
> -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1).

Oh dang, I assumed it was standard since it was in both GNU and BSD,
thanks for clearing that up!


Bjarni
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