How to match(unmatch) repositories in folder with find?

Question

I has following command to find all standart files and folders:

find /home/user/ \( ! -path "*/\.*" \) \( ! -type l \)

This find matches all but dot files/dirs with it's content and symlinks.

Also I want to exclude my git and hg repositories entirely (both repo folder name and it's content) too.

I know about .git and .hg folder's. But I can't understand how to use this in regex.

Answer 1

Try this:

find /home/user  \! -type l | egrep -v '/\..*'

This will find all files which are not symlink and grep will exclude any hidden file or hidden directory.