On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 02:48:28AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Apparently "find" only crawls the current directory and sub-directories. No. It crawls each directory you pass it in its arglist: find . /usr/local /var/lib would look in the current dir (.), /usr/local and /var/lib > Makes it very nice for for my case. I'm only interested in files under > /home/richard . It would be almost perfect if it would ignore hidden files > and directories ;/ Whatever you mean by "hidden files and directories". If you mean those whose name begins with a dot, excluding those is what you want. Typically, you'd do it with find by short-circuiting the pattern. Roughly: find ... -name ".*" -o ... Cheers -- tomás
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