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Ignoring package contents with find

Hi everyone,

I use the command find to get all folder contents of a folder. The problem is, it also gives files from within other files with package contents. (.app, .rtfd, ...). Is there anyway to not do that ?

Code:
find /path/to/my/folder/ ! -name '.*'"

(I'm using OS X, I don't know if other OSes see package contents too)

One possible option: Well I'm not 100% sure it's possible but what about only searching through folders with a maxdepth of 1 ? So all files get found and if it's a folder, search it till maxdepth 1 and if it includes a folder do it again etc. ?

Thanks in advance

Last edited by JamesGreen; 09-02-2009 at 11:16 AM..
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