How to exclude this / current / dot folder from find "type d"
find . ! -path . -type dFor this particular case (.), golfs better than the mindepth solution (24 vs 26 chars), although this is probably slightly harder to type because of the !.
To exclude other directories, this will golf less well and requires a variable for DRYness:
D="long_name"find "$D" ! -path "$D" -type dMy decision tree between ! and -mindepth:
- script? Use
!for portability. - interactive session on GNU?
- exclude
.? Throw a coin. - exclude
long_name? Use-mindepth.
- exclude
I use find ./* <...> when I don't mind ignoring first-level dotfiles (the * glob doesn't match these by default in bash - see the 'dotglob' option in the shopt builtin: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt-Builtin.html).
eclipse tmp # find .../screen./screen/.testfile2./.X11-unix./.ICE-unix./tmux-0./tmux-0/default
eclipse tmp # find ./*./screen./screen/.testfile2./tmux-0./tmux-0/default