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Old 02-03-2014
Apologise if my question is not clear.

Basically i need to find all non-hidden files in the current directory only.. It shouldn't traverse through hidden and non-hidden sub directories.

For this i think, below command is fine..
Code:
find . \( ! -name ".*" -prune \) -mtime +0 -type f -print | grep -v "[^.]/"

Don, Your command is also giving the same results
Code:
find . \(  ! -name . -prune \) ! -name ".*" -type f -mtime +${n_days}

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File::Find::Wanted - More obvious wrapper around File::Find VERSION
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File::Find is a great module, except that it doesn't actually find anything. Its "find()" function walks a directory tree and calls a callback function. Unfortunately, the callback function is deceptively called "wanted", which implies that it should return a boolean saying whether you want the file. That's not how it works. Most of the time you call "find()", you just want to build a list of files. There are other modules that do this for you, most notably Richard Clamp's great File::Find::Rule, but in many cases, it's overkill, and you need to learn a new syntax. With the "find_wanted" function, you supply a callback sub and a list of starting directories, but the sub actually should return a boolean saying whether you want the file in your list or not. To get a list of all files ending in .jpg: my @files = find_wanted( sub { -f && /.jpg$/ }, $dir ); For a list of all directories that are not CVS or .svn: my @files = find_wanted( sub { -d && !/^(CVS|.svn)$/ }, $dir ) ); It's easy, direct, and simple. WHY DO THIS
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