On Wednesday, May 03, 2017 10:57:09 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
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?
Can't answer your question off the top of my head, but, when I run into
problems like this, I try to run subsets of the command to try to narrow down
the problem. For example, I might first try find /home/richard--see if it works
(provides any output) and what that output looks like, then try adding
switches or other parts of the command one at a time.