Question

Recently (that is in winter in few days) I wrote a simple script which packs some folders, script is listed below:

#!/bin/bash 
for DIR in `find -name "MY_NAME*" -type d`
do
tar -zcvf $DIR.tar.gz $DIR &
done
echo "Packing is done" > packing.txt

It works fine except that it searches for MY_NAME* in every sub-directory of the folder where it runs.
Because MY_NAME* folders contain lots of files, and packing takes long hours, I want to limit time loss and I want the find command to find those MY_NAME* directories only within the folder where the script is running (without sub-directories). Is it possible with command find ?

Answer 1

It seems you want to use the -maxdepth flag on the find command:

find -name "MY_NAME*" -type d -maxdepth 1