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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Trying to find files equal to and greater than Post 302434892 by bbbngowc on Tuesday 6th of July 2010 11:34:10 AM
Old 07-06-2010
In one of my directories there are about 1300 files and the script is giving me the arg list too long error. I tried to put it in a for statement but it's telling me there are 0 files.

What's wrong with this command?

Code:
for file in *.txt; do find /dir1/dir2/ -prune -type f -mtime +1 -exec ls -l $file {} \;; done | wc -l

There are in fact files older than 1 day.

---------- Post updated 07-06-10 at 10:59 AM ---------- Previous update was 07-05-10 at 03:38 PM ----------

What am I doing wrong with this command please?

Code:
for file in *.txt; do find /dir1/dir2/$file -prune -type f -mtime +1 -exec ls -l {} \;; done | wc -l

Keeps telling me arg list too long.

---------- Post updated at 11:10 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:59 AM ----------

I got it to work.

Code:
for file in *.txt; do find /dir1/dir2/$file -prune -mtime +3 -exec echo {} \;; done | wc -w



---------- Post updated at 11:34 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:10 AM ----------

scratch that ... still giving the same error:

Code:
bash: /usr/bin/find: The parameter or environment lists are too long

 

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