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

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories
Date	2017-05-03 23:20 +0200
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On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 04:38:15PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 10:22:57PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > FWIW, a trick to see what's really going on is to prepend an echo
> > before all that:
> > 
> >   echo find /home/richard -type d -name .*
> > 
> > (for the example above). Of course you won't think of that if you
> > are't suspecting shell expansion in the first place, but I find
> > it very instructive to see what the shell is "seeing". That'll
> > help memory for the next time (it does for me, at least).
> 
> Yeah, that's a good start.  I actually have a little script I wrote,
> called "args":
> 
> wooledg:~$ cat bin/args
> #!/bin/sh
> printf "%d args:" "$#"
> printf " <%s>" "$@"
> echo

[...]

Nifty!

At the same time it shows the power of the shell's text substitution
model, which at the same time is its weakness. Shell is a very
interesting language model, somewhat dual to the languages in
fashion these days. Tread carefully :-)

cheers
- -- t
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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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