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Old 04-10-2007
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
# 2  
Old 04-10-2007
It is behaving exactly the was it should

Your first search returns ".", so you do "ls -lrt ." the string 'ls -l' is not a command and therefor does noting.
# 3  
Old 04-12-2007
Thanks a lot Reborg. I was forgetting about the "."
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