find command to prune only files starting with dot(filter files that start with dot)

Question

The following find command filters the files and directories starting with dot symbol.

find $PWD \( -name '.*' -prune \) -o -print 

Where as adding the "-type f" condition does not filter files starting with dot.

find $PWD \( -name '.*' -type f -prune \) -o -print # this does not work

How to prune only files starting with dot

EDIT 1: Clarification on "Does not work"

The command lists the file starting with the dot operator. Later found that it was a symbolic link to another file(which does not start with dot). Tried using -L (follow symbolic links) option like below which still listed the symbolic link file starting with dot.

find -L $PWD \( -name '.*' -type f -prune \) -o -print

Answer 1

您似乎对“ prune”的含义有些困惑： -prune表示不属于子目录 ，因此对于-type f ，这实际上没有任何意义。