On 2025-09-13, Richard Owlett wrote: > Apparently "find" only crawls the current directory and sub-directories. 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
With plocate you can build your own database with only /home/richard in it and excluding some patterns. See /etc/updatedb.conf. And you can search with -b for basename pattern.

