On 9/13/25 5:05 AM, debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote:
Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> wrote:Apparently "find" only crawls the current directory and sub-directories. 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 ;/find searches from whichever directory you tell it into its subdirectories. You can tell it to ignore whatever you want with -prune and/or -path RTFM!
*ROFL* I had gone to the manpage. As convoluted and barely readable as typical. I read manuals. Even wrote some decades ago ;}!
Example 4 of https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-explicitly-exclude-directory-from-find-command-s-search much more useful!