help with find command

[bobbybobbertson]

I want to find all the directories within a directory older than 2 day. However I don't want find to return any directories that start with a dot (.).


The following would work with perl regex's but it seems it doesn't work with find:
find -regex /home/sites/home/web/dl/ph/[^\.] -type d -mtime +2 -exec echo {} \;

any ideas?
tc

 

[bobbybobbertson]

woops that should have been...

find /home/sites/home/web/dl/ph/ -regex "[^\.]" -type d -mtime -2 -exec echo {} \;

but that still doesn't seem to work

 

[danielhozac]

What's wrong with
[tt]find /home/sites/home/web/dl/ph/ -type d -mtime -2 -print | grep -v '[^.]'[/tt]
?

//Daniel

 

[bobbybobbertson]

That does seem to work. I had to get rid of the negation ^ in '[^.]'


Also, my goal was to use the -exec part to remove the files. So instead of -exec echo {}, once I got it working, I would use -exec rm -r {}

But I bet that part could be done by piping your output into xargs or something.


thanks