'find' ignore hidden (dot) files

Peter L. Peres plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Mon Feb 16 21:18:42 UTC 2004


plp-NSb0HxlTAbs at public.gmane.org:~/tmp > touch .a
plp-NSb0HxlTAbs at public.gmane.org:~/tmp > find ./ -regex '\./\..*'
./.a
plp-NSb0HxlTAbs at public.gmane.org:~/tmp >

regex can be tricky. Try to match just the tail using an expression that
starts in / and ends in $.

Peter
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