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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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git-prune

GIT-PRUNE(1)							    Git Manual							      GIT-PRUNE(1)

NAME
       git-prune - Prune all unreachable objects from the object database

SYNOPSIS
       git prune [-n] [-v] [--progress] [--expire <time>] [--] [<head>...]

DESCRIPTION
	   Note
	   In most cases, users should run git gc, which calls git prune. See the section "NOTES", below.

       This runs git fsck --unreachable using all the refs available in refs/, optionally with additional set of objects specified on the command
       line, and prunes all unpacked objects unreachable from any of these head objects from the object database. In addition, it prunes the
       unpacked objects that are also found in packs by running git prune-packed. It also removes entries from .git/shallow that are not reachable
       by any ref.

       Note that unreachable, packed objects will remain. If this is not desired, see git-repack(1).

OPTIONS
       -n, --dry-run
	   Do not remove anything; just report what it would remove.

       -v, --verbose
	   Report all removed objects.

       --progress
	   Show progress.

       --expire <time>
	   Only expire loose objects older than <time>.

       --
	   Do not interpret any more arguments as options.

       <head>...
	   In addition to objects reachable from any of our references, keep objects reachable from listed <head>s.

EXAMPLE
       To prune objects not used by your repository or another that borrows from your repository via its .git/objects/info/alternates:

	   $ git prune $(cd ../another && git rev-parse --all)

NOTES
       In most cases, users will not need to call git prune directly, but should instead call git gc, which handles pruning along with many other
       housekeeping tasks.

       For a description of which objects are considered for pruning, see git fsck's --unreachable option.

SEE ALSO
       git-fsck(1), git-gc(1), git-reflog(1)

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

Git 2.17.1							    10/05/2018							      GIT-PRUNE(1)
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