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Old 03-04-2010
find -type d returning files as well as directories
Can anyone see why the following command returns all files and not just the directories as specified?

find . -type d -exec ls -F {} \;

Also tried
find . -type d -name "*" -exec ls -F {} \;
find . -type d -name "*" -exec ls -F '{}' \; -print

Always returns all files :-\

OS is SUSEv10.
Thanks,
Mike.
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Old 03-04-2010
your find looks for directories that exec ls -F display content (so files...)
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Old 03-04-2010
So I should have used -d with the ls :

find . -type d -exec ls -dF {} \;

to make the ls just display the dir and not the contents.

Thanks,
Mike.
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