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04-24-2007

mjays

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how do i exclude the current directory when using find?

i want to compile a list of files in all sub directories but exclude the current directory.

the closest i could get was to search 'only' the current directory, which is the opposite of what i wanted.

Code:

find . ! -name . -prune

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