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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers find problem with exec Post 302482335 by MorpheusC on Tuesday 21st of December 2010 09:02:29 AM
Old 12-21-2010
find problem with exec
Hi, i want to make a script that calculates the total size in bytes from files from a directory(first argument) and displays "Total :xxxxx", the second argument must indicate the minimum size of files processed and the third argument indicates the path to a file that will save the processed file names, that have size greater than specified in argument 2.

I tried with find:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
find $1 -type f -size +$2k -exec ls -lh {} \; > $3

But i get this :

Code:
./a /var/tmp 2222 ss
find: /var: No such file or directory

if i type the code find without path like this : find -type f -size 6579c displays the files from /home/morpheusc but when i try: find -type f -exec ls -lh \; | grep total it displays eight times : like this
Code:
total 8.0K
find: ./public_html: Permission denied
total 8.0K
total 8.0K
total 8.0K
total 8.0K
total 8.0K
total 8.0K

I dont understand why when i try find /var/tmp -type f -size 6579c .... it says that no files found.
 

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