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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Redirecting 'find' output... Post 302247979 by Smiling Dragon on Thursday 16th of October 2008 08:04:01 PM
Old 10-16-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by dan-e
...well it now outputs the full path of every file it tests, rather than the ones I'm filtering for...

Have I just found a bug in the illustrious 'NIX? Can anyone reproduce (or not) what I have described in the original post? Is this a common variety of glitch in ux? Smilie

Im scared!! and I need answers!!!
Unless I'm missing something here (that happens rather often unfortunately Smilie), your command doesn't actually instruct find to display the output but instead relies on a bit of smarts find has that prints what it matches if stdout is not redirected... I'd not have expected the first one (that does work) to work correctly either Smilie

As suggested by zaxxon, add a -print or -ls to actually output the name on stdout.
If it's showing every file, I would guess you have the -print before the rest of the tests (it does them in order, -print and -ls always return true).
 

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AMIN(1)                                                       General Commands Manual                                                      AMIN(1)

NAME
amin - notify writers that you are busy SYNOPSIS
amin [-ynesp] command [args...] DESCRIPTION
Amin is used when you don't want to be written while running a command. It runs the command given normally. If your message permissions (see mesg(1)) are off, it does nothing much else. If your messages are on, people writing you with write(1) will be warned that you are running that command and will be given the opportunity to change their minds about writing you. The -n option may be used to turn your messages entirely off for the duration of the execution of command. People writing you will get "Permission denied". The -y option turns your message permissions on for the duration of the execution of the command. The -e may be used after either -n or -y to indicate that the logins listed in the .yeswrite or the .nowrite files respectively are exceptions to the message permissions set. The default is -s which leaves your message permissions in their original state. In any case, after the command is com- plete, your permissions will be restored to the original state. The -p flag causes all telegrams sent to you while the command is running to be saved. They are displayed as soon as the command is com- plete. If used with the -n flag, writes are refused, but telegrams are still saved. If you have designated yourself as a helper, you will still be marked on the finger(1) output as a helper while you are running amin but people doing ``write help'' will not be connected to you, even if you have the helper flag set to ``Y''. AUTHOR
Jan Wolter FILES
/etc/wrttmp to find message permissions /etc/utmp to find user SEE ALSO
mesg(1), finger(1), write(1), huh(1). 7th Edition July 1, 1991 AMIN(1)
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