On 9/13/25 5:05 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Richard Owlett <[email protected]> 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 ;/
find searches from whichever directory you tell it into its
subdirectories. You can tell it to ignore whatever you want with -prune
and/or -path
RTFM!
*ROFL* I had gone to the manpage. As convoluted and barely readable as
typical. I read manuals. Even wrote some decades ago ;}!
Example 4 of
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-explicitly-exclude-directory-from-find-command-s-search
much more useful!
