find excluding the hidden files

UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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Hi ,

I am trying to use the find command with delete in a directory . Even though i use a wil character search the find command is checking the hidden files which inturn results in error .

Can i avoid look that into the hidden files ?? I am using HP unix .

find /cv1/ -name "ite*" -mtime +14 -exec rm -f -r

HIw can modify the above command so that i exclude the hedden files or directory when searching ..

PLease let me know if is urgent

Thanks,
Arun

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Check the syntax of the find command. It is missing the curly braces {} that represent the files returned by find and it should be terminated by an escaped semi-colon \;

find /cv1/ -name "ite*" -mtime +14 -exec rm -fr {} \;

I am not sure what you mean by hidden files or directories?

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He means files prepended with a period, .hidden for example.

You can use a regex to exclude these files and directories:

find . \( ! -regex '.*/\..*' \)

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Hi

find /wsfer/cre/ -name "mod*" -mtime +14 -exec rm -f -r 2> /dev/null "{}" ";"

This was the command i used the syntax was right ..
I even though tried the regex you suggested it was not working . I am using HP UNIX.

Even though i used /dev/null after this command when i tried $? the status i am geeting is 1 if the permision denied . Why it is happening .
And how to exclude the hidden files and directory in the above command . Please help.

Thanks
Arun.