find exclude directory

syg00 · 04-06-2018, 04:52 PM

That's been said often enough about the manpage itself. It's over-whelming, but we all need to keep coming back to it.

dazzpowder · 04-09-2018, 08:22 AM

One small question what does -o actually stand for? I know it actions to carry on with whats to the right of -o, but not what it stands for

-thanks

rknichols · 04-09-2018, 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by dazzpowder

One small question what does -o actually stand for? I know it actions to carry on with whats to the right of -o, but not what it stands for

In the find command, "-o" is the OR operator. In the absence of an operator, "-a" (AND) is implied.

AndrewSr · 04-12-2018, 11:56 AM

To exclude "the dot directory" I assume you mean either of ./ ../ in general, tell find to always go one step down the hierarchy:
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