How can I get `find` to ignore .svn directories?

Question

I often use the find command to search through source code, delete files, whatever. Annoyingly, because Subversion stores duplicates of each file in its .

Answer 1

If you tell find to search through '*', then it will skip all "dot files" in the root:

find *

or with path

find /path/*

This is not an exact / perfect solution to the question. However, few solutions are simpler than this one. Performance is great too, since it doesn't even enter the hidden directories.

shortcomings:

• it doesn't handle nested "dot files".
• all "dot files" are ignored, not just ".git" and ".svn".

So in your example adding a star is the only modification you would need:

find * -name 'messages.*' -exec grep -Iw uint {} +