Shell Programming and Scripting

Try this for excluding the hidden files...

Code:

find /home ! -path "*/\.*"

--ahamed

this worked:

Code:

find /home \( ! -regex '.*/\..*' \) -type f -name "*"

but it would be nice to just use the exclude file for this stuff.

---------- Post updated at 01:03 AM ---------- Previous update was at 12:58 AM ----------

wow to easy. good stuff. I just attempted to add that to my exclude file using grep and it didnt work. There is some trick to the format in this exclude file that would make this alot easier. Regardless many thanks

---------- Post updated at 01:08 AM ---------- Previous update was at 01:03 AM ----------

this seem to have worked:

Code:

sudo find /home -depth -mtime 0 ! -path "*/\.*" -print | grep -f include_home | grep -v -f exclude_home

I still have this itch with the exclude file. I need to dig a little further into that for it would make things easier.

regards