Find all files in a directory that are not directories themselves

Question

I am looking for a way to list all the files in a directory excluding directories themselves, and the files in those sub-directories.

So if I have:

./test.log
./test2.log
./directory
./directory/file2

I want a command that returns: ./test.log ./test2.log and nothing else.

Solution 1

If you want test.log, test2.log, and file2 then:

find . -type f

If you do not want file2 then:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f

Solution 2

If you need symlinks, pipes, device files and other specific elements of file system to be listed too, you should use:

find -maxdepth 1 -not -type d

This will list everything except directories.

Solution 3

using find is simple as:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f

Comments

[amrox]

You are right, misread the question. John Kugelman posted a more complete answer.

[sherrellbc]

This is exactly what I was looking for. I wanted to list all types except directories. I was doing something like find / -group xxx | xargs ls -l. This would ls -l <dir> and then ls -l <file> each file in the dir. But using -not -type d excluded dirs from the output. Note that ! -type d also works (and claims to be POSIX compliant per the man page)