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

From Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories
Date 2017-05-03 18:20 +0200
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On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 12:01:21PM -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> Oh, but in case it wasn't very clear, my intension wasn't so much a specific 
> recommendation of what might work, but instead, a recommendation on a 
> methodology to find the problem one's self.

Unfortunately, "remove random parts of the syntax and see what happens"
tends to be a poor approach, especially with find(1).  There may be
some other kinds of problems where that works well, but it wouldn't be
my recommendation in general practice.

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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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