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04-10-2007

shriashishpatil shriashishpatil is offline

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query about find and -exec

Hi,
i have query about "find" command. Do I need to put the command after -exec in single quotes? Why?

For ex. see output of these three find commands.

Quote:

$ find . -ctime -2
.
$

Quote:

$ find . -ctime -2 -exec ls -lrt {} \;
total 1648
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tlswrk14 aimsys 0 Mar 9 10:06 Shutdown_pm1Dispatcher_DSN1_0_3889.done
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tlswrk14 aimsys 0 Mar 9 10:49 Shutdown_pm1Dispatcher_DSN1_0_21508.done
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tlswrk14 aimsys 425461 Mar 13 15:40 Event1771_20070313_154002.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tlswrk14 aimsys 388773 Mar 13 16:10 Event1771_20070313_161055.xml
$

Quote:

$find . -ctime -2 -exec 'ls -l' {} \;
$

Any explanations?

cheers,
-Ashish

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