Let us suppose that we have file1 in the current directory. Then:
$ find . -maxdepth 0 -name "file1"
$ find . file1 -maxdepth 0 -name "file1"
file1
Now, let's look at what the documentation states:
-maxdepth 0
means only apply the tests and actions to the command line arguments.
In my first example above,
only the directory . is listed on the command line. Since . does not have the name file1, nothing is listed in the output. In my second example above, both . and file1 are listed on the command line,
and, because file1 matches -name "file1", it was returned in the output.
In other words, -maxdepth 0 means do not search directories or subdirectories. Instead, only look for a matching file among those explicitly listed on the command line.
In your examples, only directories were listed on the command line and none of them were named file1. Hence, no output.
In general, many files and directories can be named on the command line.
For example, here we try a find command
with nine files and directories on the command line:
$ ls
d1 file1 file10 file2 file3 file4 file5 file6 file7
$ find d1 file1 file10 file2 file3 file4 file5 file6 file7 -maxdepth 0 -name "file1"
file1
Overlapping paths
Consider:
$ find . file1 -maxdepth 0 -iname file1
file1
$ find . file1 file1 -maxdepth 0 -iname file1
file1
file1
$ find . file1 file1 -maxdepth 1 -iname file1
./file1
file1
file1
find will follow each path specified on the command line and look for matches even if the paths lead to the same file, as in . file,
or even if the paths are exact duplicates, as in file1 file1.
-path "/usr/local/connect/" would match only on a file path that is exactly /usr/local/connect/. That will never match because with find ., all the paths will start with .
So you'd want:
find / -path '/usr/local/connect/*' -type d -prune -o \
-name '*.txt' -type f -mtime -1 -print
The -print is also important. Without it, there would be an implicit -print for files that match the whole expression (so both parts of the -o).
Note that you can also use -xdev to prevent crossing any file system boundary.
If you want to run it with find . when the current directory is /usr/local, that would have to be:
cd /usr/local &&
find . -path './connect/*' -type d -prune -o \
-name '*.txt' -type f -mtime -1 -print
Best Answer
I needed to put the -type f at the end of the search command, but before the printf. It became: