Limit a search to the immediate directory.
Linux Commands: Use maxdepth with type f to exclude nested files and directories.
find documents -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf "%f\n" | LC_ALL=C sortExpected output EXAMPLE
a.txt b.csv
Details
Run in Bash on GNU/Linux in a scratch directory. Tested with the GNU utilities supplied by Ubuntu. Use maxdepth with type f to exclude nested files and directories.
Tested on Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS · · GNU bash, version 5.2.21(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) · bash 5.2.21-2ubuntu4; coreutils 9.4-3ubuntu6.3; findutils 4.9.0-5build1
Test inputs, results and environment
The exact published code ran in a dedicated Linux test container with prepared inputs. Unprivileged snippet process, external networking disabled, read-only root filesystem, and a fresh temporary working directory. Fixtures and output records are isolated from the application database. Testing covers this example and its stated checks, not every input, operating system, or runtime version. The Linux container shares its host's kernel; this is not a native Windows test.
- Architecture / host kernel
- x86_64 / 6.18.54.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
- Snippet identity / locale
- uid=65534, gid=65534 (unprivileged) / C.UTF-8
- Interpreter invocation
bash -euo pipefail -c <published code>- Container image ID
sha256:32dc2d998158b6554c99b73b533f423696a0f3e31e8cbea9db10b5eee9a2fadd- Code SHA-256
55b3f782031a3d4b34e1e8d0404876290da1035cc205cbc3014f48bbd1484830- Dependencies
- bash 5.2.21-2ubuntu4; coreutils 9.4-3ubuntu6.3; findutils 4.9.0-5build1
Test input setup
These are the prepared inputs used by the test harness. See Details above for the prerequisites and how to run this example.
mkdir -p documents/nested; touch documents/a.txt documents/b.csv documents/nested/c.txt
Observed standard output
a.txt b.csv
Exit code: 0. Standard error: empty. Validation: Exact stdout comparison. System-dependent values above are one recorded run.