'find' ignore hidden (dot) files

Henry Spencer henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org
Mon Feb 16 19:55:05 UTC 2004


On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Lloyd Budd wrote:
> I am already "past it" (piped through grep), but I am surprised that I 
> cannot figure out how to make find not   "match" hidden files...

find ..... ! -name '.*' .....

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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