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I'm putting together a perl script, and I'm using the following command to list all files and directories under a specified directory

`find $dir -print`

This lists all files and directories UNDER directory $dir. I simply want something that will output files and directories directly under or IN directory $dir, using the find command.

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Why do you want to use the find command? Why not just use Perl's built-in opendir and readdir functions? – Keith Thompson Oct 15 '11 at 4:41
@KeithThompson Too late now, it was written, it cannot be unwritten... – sj755 Oct 15 '11 at 4:52
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Perhaps I can recommend a few text editors with "delete" features. – Keith Thompson Oct 15 '11 at 4:54
@KeithThompson delete...never heard of it... – sj755 Oct 15 '11 at 6:17
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Pass -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 before any other predicates to restrict it to items located directly within the search directory.

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WOW!!! That worked perfect thanks. – sj755 Oct 15 '11 at 4:51
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