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

From rhkramer@gmail.com
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories
Date 2017-05-03 17:20 +0200
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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.

Maybe next I'd try:

find /home/richard -type d -name .* (without the escaped parens), then maybe 
add the parens (I've never tried parens in a command like that, so am not sure 
they work, and then continue adding switches (or whatever) pretty much one at 
a time.

If I have to ask for help on the mailing list, I'd try to provide the command 
that I think I want to run (but didn't) (as you did), but also one or more of 
the commands I tried and did work.

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Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-03 17:00 +0200
  Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-05-03 17:20 +0200
  Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-03 17:20 +0200
    Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-03 17:50 +0200
      Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-03 18:10 +0200
        Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-03 18:20 +0200
          Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-03 18:30 +0200
            Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-03 19:40 +0200
      Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-03 22:30 +0200
        Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-03 22:40 +0200
          Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-03 23:20 +0200
        Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-04 04:30 +0200
          Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-04 04:50 +0200
            Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Bob McGowan <ramjr0915@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 08:00 +0200
              Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-04 09:30 +0200
                Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2017-05-04 09:40 +0200
                Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories tomas@tuxteam.de - 2017-05-04 10:00 +0200
                Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-04 14:10 +0200
                Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2017-05-04 14:30 +0200
                Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-04 14:40 +0200
              Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-04 13:40 +0200
    Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-03 19:40 +0200
      Addendum Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-03 20:00 +0200
      Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-04 04:20 +0200
    Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 02:00 +0200
      Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 02:10 +0200

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