find folders in a directory, without listing the parent directory

Question

Having trouble listing the contents of a folder I'm not in, while excluding the actual folder name itself.

ex:

root@vps [~]# find ~/test -type d /root/test /root/test/test1 

However I want it to only display /test1, as the example.

Thoughts?

Answer 1

There's nothing wrong with a simple

find ~/test -mindepth 1 

Similarly, this will have the same effect:

find ~/test/* 

as it matches everything contained within ~/test/ but not ~/test itself.

As an aside, you'll almost certainly find that find will complain about the -mindepth n option being after any other switches, as ordering is normally important but the -(min|max)depth n switches affect overall behaviour.