Question

I’m trying to do a search for all image files more than X by Y pixels in directory /Users/ (this is Mac OS, and yes, a ‘dangerous’ search, I know.)

int main( ){
  FILE *pf;
   pf = popen("cd ~/ ; find . -type f '!' '(' -path ".*" ')' -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep 'image data'","r"); 
 }

This gives the error find: ./.fseventsd: Permission denied. I need to skip any directories starting with . but can’t seem to get it to work using the above ! ( -path ".*" ) command.

Lots of info out there about how to skip files; can’t seem to find any about directories.

Answer 1

-path . only matches ‘.’ so try

find . -type f '!' '(' -path "./.[a-z]*" ')'