Skip VCS directories with find

find-skip-vcs-directories.md

This command recursively finds every file matching the glob pattern *.* (name.extension) in the working directory, excluding child directories whose names start with ..

This is useful for skipping various VCS directories, for instance.

find . -type d -path './.*' -prune -o -type f -name '*.*' -print

There is a lot of misleading and confusing information on the Internet about how to achieve this.

One important thing to remember is that find prepends ./ to every result, accounting for the first part of the -path argument.

The -name argument is included to demonstrate additional filters. Omitting it would yield every file.