Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories

[Marc Auslander <marcslists@gmail.com>]

Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> writes:

> The man page for find confuses me.
> Looking for explanatory material I found and tried to follow examples
> in http://mywiki.wooledge.org/UsingFind#A-prune .
>
> I tried
>   find /home/richard \( -type d -name .* -prune \) -o -atime -42 -print
> and
>   find /home/richard \( -type d -name .* -prune \) -atime -42 -print
> unsuccessfully.
>
> Each got an "find: paths must precede expression: .." error
>
> HOW?
> TIA
.* is being globed.  Put it in quotes.