-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 11:44:31AM -0400, 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.
Bullseye :-) 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). cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlkKPCEACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZkygCeK51tKEF+OPTXJ137Eqb5W5W+ DhYAnRi0DMNAw5HxyTjDShuxzX0yrDAP =mZEs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
