Exclude a sub-directory using find

Question

I have directory structure like this

data
|___
   |
   abc
    |____incoming
   def
    |____incoming
    |____processed
   123
    |___incoming
   456
    |___i         


        

Answer 1

This is what I did to exclude all the .git directories and passed it to -exec for greping something in the

find . -not -path '*/\.*' -type f -exec grep "pattern" [] \;

• -not -path '*/\.*' will exclude all the hidden directories
• -type f will only list type file and then you can pass that to -exec or whatever you want todo