shell - How to exclude this / current / dot folder from find "type d"

Question

find . -type d

can be used to find all directories below some start point. But it returns the current directory (.) too, which may be undesired. How can it be excluded?

Answer 1

Not only the recursion depth of find can be controlled by the -maxdepth parameter, the depth can also be limited from “top” using the corresponding -mindepth parameter. So what one actually needs is:

find . -mindepth 1 -type d