On Wednesday, May 03, 2017 11:44:31 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 11:13:46AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 03, 2017 10:57:09 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > > > find /home/richard \( -type d -name .* -prune \) -o -atime -42 > > > -print > > > > Maybe next I'd try: > > > > find /home/richard -type d -name .* (without the escaped parens) > > No, the problem is the unquoted .* glob. That will expand to an > indeterminate number of filename arguments, and almost certainly will > not do what he wants. > > Always quote glob patterns unless you actually want the shell to expand > them. In this case, he wants find to receive it without expansion.
Not the OP (just one of the responders), but thanks, I hope I can let that sink into my subconscious (or somewhere ;-) and remember that in the future. 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.
