'How to exclude this / current / dot folder from find "type d"

find . -type d

can be used to find all directories below some start point. But it returns the current directory (.) too, which may be undesired. How can it be excluded?

shelldirectoryfind


Solution 1:[1]

Not only the recursion depth of find can be controlled by the -maxdepth parameter, the depth can also be limited from “top” using the corresponding -mindepth parameter. So what one actually needs is:

find . -mindepth 1 -type d

Solution 2:[2]

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

Solution 3:[3]

Well, a simple workaround as well (the solution was not working for me on windows git bash)

find * -type d

It might not be very performant, but gets the job done, and it's what we need sometimes.

[Edit] : As @AlexanderMills commented it will not show up hidden directories in the root location (eg ./.hidden), but it will show hidden subdirectories (eg. ./folder/.hiddenSub). [Tested with git bash on windows]

Solution 4:[4]

Pipe it to sed. Don't forget the -r that extend regular expression.

find . -type d | sed -r '/^\.$/d'

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Solution 1 Matthias Ronge
Solution 2 Milos Ivanovic
Solution 3
Solution 4 Clement

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