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  • thanks a lot. Although I was sort of confused by the words deeper and lower, but I got it eventually Commented Jul 8, 2018 at 22:39
  • @user1993, yeah, that didn't come out right. I suppose the opposite of "deep" is "shallow", but that doesn't really sound fitting here. Edited, hopefully for the better. Commented Jul 8, 2018 at 22:43
  • Depth implies the hierarchy of a file system. Why are "command line arguments" considered part of the file system?? Perhaps you could clarify that this means the root/starting point of the find i.e. the directory passed as an argument. Commented Nov 10, 2021 at 7:24
  • @Marc, fine, "for the purposes of the -mindepth and -maxdepth options, the files named on the command line are considered to be at depth 0; files contained within them at depth 1; and in general, files contained within files at depth N are considered to be at depth N+1." better? Commented Nov 10, 2021 at 11:03