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.
