I tried to use this command in my work dir
find . -type d \( ! -name .git -prune \) -o \( ! -name .hg -prune \)
Does not seem to work?
removing prune will only exclude .git or .hg directories, not their subdir
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@pktangyue unfortunately I don't have rights to install `tree` – est Jan 11 '13 at 04:24
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Why do you need permissions? You can install it in your home directory. – Barmar Jan 11 '13 at 04:27
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My answer is essentially the same as @Barmar's, which I have upvoted:
find . \( -name .git -o -name .hg \) -prune -o \( -type d -print \)
A little explanation about this command might be helpful to you:
Here -o means OR. When find finds a file's name matching .git or .hg, it stops the further search due to -prune option and evaluates to true, hence skips the other -o branch(which is directory printing). That's why only those directories not containing .git or .hg will show up.
You may also refer to this question on SO: How to use '-prune' option of 'find' in sh?
