How to only find files in a given directory, and ignore subdirectories using bash

Question

I\'m running the find command to find certain files, but some files in sub-directories have the same name which I want to ignore.

I\'m interested in files/pa

Answer 1

Is there any particular reason that you need to use find? You can just use ls to find files that match a pattern in a directory.

ls /dev/abc-*

If you do need to use find, you can use the -maxdepth 1 switch to only apply to the specified directory.