How do I make find exclude hidden files (.files)

Rotwang · 01-15-2008, 03:18 PM

The find command will find all files including those that start with ".". For example if you have a dir with .htaccess in it

find . -type f

will include the .htaccess in the results.

Can I exclude those files? (I guess I could pipe it to grep and somehow do an exclusion maybe?)

(Also how would I do this with tar? The man page for tar says "PATTERN" but doesn't specify what "PATTERN" is. Regex? )

colucix · 01-15-2008, 03:42 PM

You may use the -regex option, like this

Code:

find . \( ! -regex '.*/\..*' \) -type f

this will exclude also non-hidden files inside hidden directories, anyway.

paulmarc · 08-08-2011, 03:58 AM

You can also use:

Code:

find . -type f -not -name ".*"