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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Find all files in the current directory excluding hidden files and directories Post 302886637 by Don Cragun on Monday 3rd of February 2014 02:53:23 AM
Old 02-03-2014
The -prune primary in find ignores everything except directories, but the combination! -name ".*" -prune does not prune directories with names starting with a period. A rough equivalent of -maxdepth 1 for use in versions of find that don't have the -maxdepth primary is \( ! -name . -prune \).

If there is no -exec primary, no -ok primary, and no -print primary in the expression given to find, the -print primary is supplied by default.

The following is a slightly simpler command than MadeInGermany's suggestion and should produce the same results:
Code:
find . \(  ! -name . -prune \) ! -name ".*" -type f -mtime +${n_days}

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File::Find::Rule::VCS(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				File::Find::Rule::VCS(3pm)

NAME
File::Find::Rule::VCS - Exclude files/directories for Version Control Systems SYNOPSIS
use File::Find::Rule (); use File::Find::Rule::VCS (); # Find all files smaller than 10k, ignoring version control files my @files = File::Find::Rule->ignore_vcs ->file ->size('<10Ki') ->in( $dir ); DESCRIPTION
Many tools need to be equally useful both on ordinary files, and on code that has been checked out from revision control systems. File::Find::Rule::VCS provides quick and convenient methods to exclude the version control directories of several major Version Control Systems (currently CVS, subversion, and Bazaar). File::Find::Rule::VCS implements methods to ignore the following: CVS Subversion Bazaar In addition, the following version control systems do not create directories in the checkout and do not require the use of any ignore methods SVK Git METHODS
ignore_vcs # Ignore all common version control systems $find->ignore_vcs; # Ignore a specific named version control systems $find->ignore_vcs($name); # Ignore nothing (silent pass-through) $find->ignore_vcs(''); The "ignore_vcs" method excludes the files for a named Version Control System from your File::Find::Rule search. If passed, the name of the version control system is case in-sensitive. Names currently supported are 'cvs', 'svn', 'subversion', 'bzr', and 'bazaar'. As a convenience for high-level APIs, if the VCS name is the defined null string '' then the call will be treated as a nullop. If no params at all are passed, this method will ignore all supported version control systems. If ignoring every version control system, please note that any legitimate directories called "CVS" or files starting with .# will be ignored, which is not always desirable. In widely-distributed code, you instead should try to detect the specific version control system used and call ignore_vcs with the specific name. Passing "undef", or an unsupported name, will throw an exception. ignore_cvs The "ignore_cvs" method excluding all CVS directories from your File::Find::Rule search. It will also exclude all the files left around by CVS after an automated merge that start with '.#' (dot-hash). ignore_rcs The "ignore_rcs" method excluding all RCS directories from your File::Find::Rule search. It will also exclude all the files used by RCS to store the revisions (end with ',v'). ignore_svn The "ignore_svn" method excluding all Subversion (".svn") directories from your File::Find::Rule search. ignore_bzr The "ignore_bzr" method excluding all Bazaar (".bzr") directories from your File::Find::Rule search. ignore_git The "ignore_git" method excluding all Git (".git") directories from your File::Find::Rule search. ignore_hg The "ignore_hg" method excluding all Mercurial/Hg (".hg") directories from your File::Find::Rule search. TO DO
- Add support for other version control systems. - Add other useful VCS-related methods SUPPORT
Bugs should always be submitted via the CPAN bug tracker <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=File-Find-Rule-VCS> For other issues, contact the maintainer AUTHOR
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org> SEE ALSO
<http://ali.as/>, File::Find::Rule COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2005 - 2010 Adam Kennedy. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module. perl v5.10.1 2010-10-06 File::Find::Rule::VCS(3pm)
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