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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to find the recent file in many sub-directories? Post 302429826 by omerzzz on Tuesday 15th of June 2010 05:09:53 PM
Old 06-15-2010
lose the double quotation
worked for me in Ubuntu and red-hat.
Code:
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
root@omer-desktop:/# find -P . -name *.log
./tmp/vmware-root/appLoader-9051.log
./tmp/vmware-root/setup-9530.log
./tmp/vmware-root/appLoader-14811.log
./tmp/vmware-root/appLoader-7774.log
./tmp/vmware-root/setup-8038.log
./tmp/vmware-root/appLoader-8038.log
./tmp/vmware-root/appLoader-14819.log
./tmp/vmware-root/setup-7787.log
./tmp/vmware-root/setup-9051.log
./tmp/vmware-root/setup-8847.log
./tmp/vmware-root/setup-7774.log
./tmp/vmware-root/appLoader-7753.log
./tmp/vmware-root/setup-9933.log
./tmp/vmware-root/appLoader-7736.log
./tmp/vmware-root/appLoader-7757.log
./tmp/vmware-root/appLoader-7733.log
./tmp/vmware-root/appLoader-8041.log
./tmp/vmware-root/setup-8844.log

 

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NAME

       SVN::Web::Browse - SVN::Web action to browse a Subversion repository

SYNOPSIS

       In config.yaml

	 actions:
	   ...
	   browse:
	     class: SVN::Web::Browse
	     action_menu:
	       show:
		 - directory
	       link_text: (browse directory)
	   ...

DESCRIPTION

       Returns a file/directory listing for the given repository path.

OPTIONS

       rev The repository revision to show.  Defaults to the repository's youngest revision.

TEMPLATE VARIABLES

       at_head
	   A boolean value, indicating whether or not the user is currently browsing the HEAD of the repository.

       context
	   Always "directory".

       entries
	   A list of hash refs, one for each file and directory entry in the browsed path.  The list is ordered with directories first, then
	   files, sorted alphabetically.

	   Each hash ref has the following keys.

	   name    The entry's name.

	   path    The entry's full path.

	   rev	   The entry's most recent interesting revision.

	   size    The entry's size, in bytes.	The empty string '' for directories.

	   type    The entry's "svn:mime-type" property.  Not set for directories.

	   author  The userid that committed the most recent interesting revision for this entry.

	   date    The date of the entry's most recent interesting revision, formatted according to "Time and date formatting" in SVN::Web.

	   msg	   The log message for the entry's most recent interesting revision.

       rev The repository revision that is being browsed.  Will be the same as the "rev" parameter given to the action, unless that parameter was
	   not set, in which case it will be the repository's youngest revision.

       youngest_rev
	   The repository's youngest revision.

EXCEPTIONS

       (path %1 does not exist in revision %2)
	   The given path is not present in the repository at the given revision.

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	   The given path exists in the repository at the given revision, but is not a directory.  This action is only used to browse directories.

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