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

I got here with a bit more general problem - I wanted to find files in directories matching pattern but not in their subdirectories.

My solution (assuming we're looking for all cpp files living directly in arch directories):

find . -path "*/arch/*/*" -prune -o -path "*/arch/*.cpp" -print

I couldn't use maxdepth since it limited search in the first place, and didn't know names of subdirectories that I wanted to exclude.