diff --git a/pages/common/find.md b/pages/common/find.md
index 389e42b069..d3b6de1a30 100644
--- a/pages/common/find.md
+++ b/pages/common/find.md
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@
 
 `find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.py}}' -not -path '{{*/site-packages/*}}'`
 
-- Find files matching a given size range:
+- Find files matching a given size range, limiting the recursive depth to "1"::
 
-`find {{root_path}} -size {{+500k}} -size {{-10M}}`
+`find {{root_path}} -maxdepth 1 -size {{+500k}} -size {{-10M}}`
 
 - Run a command for each file (use `{}` within the command to access the filename):