Question

I have a find command that I run to find files whose names contain foo.

I want to skip the .git directory. The command below works except it prints an
annoying .git any time it skips a .git directory:

find . ( -name .git ) -prune -o -name '*foo*'

How can I prevent the skipped .git directories from
printing to the standard output?

Answer 1

Try this one:

find . -name '*foo*' | grep -v '\.git'

This will still traverse into the .git directories, but won’t display them. Or you can combine with your version:

find . ( -name .git ) -prune -o -name '*foo*' | grep -v '\.git'

You can also do it without grep:

find . ( -name .git ) -prune -printf '' -o -name '*foo*' -print