On 9/13/25 6:04 AM, [email protected] wrote:
On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 02:48:28AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
Apparently "find" only crawls the current directory and sub-directories.
No. It crawls each directory you pass it in its arglist:
find . /usr/local /var/lib
would look in the current dir (.), /usr/local and /var/lib
Makes it very nice for for my case. I'm only interested in files under
/home/richard . It would be almost perfect if it would ignore hidden files
and directories ;/
Whatever you mean by "hidden files and directories". If you mean those
whose name begins with a dot, excluding those is what you want.
Typically, you'd do it with find by short-circuiting the pattern.
Roughly:
find ... -name ".*" -o ...
Cheers
I can be a little slow so the [ find ... -iname ".*" -o ... ] did not
work for me probably because I do not use 'find' enough to know what to
do with the trailing ...
However, I tried
find . -maxdepth 1 -iname "*" | grep -v "\.\/\."
and to the level that I understand what the original problem is/was,
it gets what I (not necessarily what the person with original problem)
thinks is the solution.
Anyways thanks for the opportunity to do a very short refresher with
'find' and with regex and also hopefully catching myself before posting
a private message
to tomas and not including the list. (someone like me needs time to
bumble through the stupid mistakes a few times (or more) before gaining
any proficiency)
