Using find (specifically the one on windows that comes with git) to search files. I specifically want to check my entire USB drive but not in folders that start with a dot (specifically .git and .vs) and not in a folder called photos (many many vacation and bday pics, my file isn't in there).
How do I ignore those directories?
find . -type d \( -name .git\* -o -name .vs\* -o name photos \) -prune -o -type f -print
The find command above will refrain from entering the said directories and for all other cases it will display the name of entities found that are regular files.
Use bellow command
find . \( ! -name .vs ! -name .git ! -name photos \) -print
Where
. first is the current directory
You may change you location on your demand
Or you may use bellow command also
find . -not -path "./.git/*" -not -path "./.vs/*" -not -path "./photos/*"
find . \( ! -name ".nuget" \) -print yields results from my .nuget directory however find . -not -path "*.nuget*" appears to work. I can't tell if find is searching the nuget directory or not. On windows it appears to do the same thing however using resource manager I see find is searching through the directory every tho it's not matching anything. There's a lot of files so its running slow which is what I'm trying to prevent. Maybe I should write a C# app. I was hoping this would be simple