I was going through a find tutorial and just couldn't get it...can someone explain it like he/she would explain a brain damaged dodo?
"find allows you to specify a pattern that can be bit-wise ANDed with the permissions of the file. Simply put a minus sign before the octal value. The group write... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Is there a way to use find command to list the directories for certain permissions. I know we can use find . -type d -perm nnn, where nnn is the permission number . However I wold like to know if I wanna search for wild card permissions i.e 75* / 7* / 55* , as i do not know the actual... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I was reading the man pages of find and it says that the -exec option should not be used. I read the following about the recommended option, -execdir:
-execdir command {} +
Like -exec, but the specified command is run from the subdirec‐
tory containing... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to list files only from the current dir and its child dir (not from child's child dir).
i have the following files,
./ABC/1.log
./ABC/2.log
./ABC/ABC1/A.log
./ABC/ABC1/B.log
./ABC/ABC1/XYZ/A1.log
./ABC/ABC1/XYZ/A2.log
Here i want to list only the log file from current... (1 Reply)
Hi,
The proble is below:
Assume i have files starting from "process" then date/time then ".log".
ex .
process.20100504092942.log
process.20100503152213.log
process.20100430144217.log
process.20100429153644.log
process.20100428121200.log
process.20100427130746.log... (2 Replies)
To find all the files in your home directory that have been edited in some way since the last tar file, use this command:
find . -newer backup.tar.gz
Is anyone familiar with an older solution?
looking to identify files older then 15mins across several directories.
thanks,
manny (2 Replies)
I'm trying to use regular expression arguments as variables. I have to surround the regular expression with double quotes or else it automatically expands that regular expression to whatever is in that directory.
Unfortunately when I run 'find' it further surrounds the double quotes with single... (6 Replies)
Hello, I am using ksh93 (/usr/dt/bin/dtksh) on Solaris and am stuck when trying to use find with the -prune option.
I need to search a directory (supplied in a variable) for files matching a certain pattern, but ignore any sub-directories.
I have tried:
find ${full_path_to_dir_to_search}... (9 Replies)
Hi,
Please give me more details on the following examples, about "mtime" option.
When I try this, I could not get the expected output, please help.
find . -mtime -1 -print
find . -mtime +1 -print
find . -mtime 1 -print
How do I get the files modified between two dates, say from... (4 Replies)
Hi,
My apologies if my query is already available on this forum but I am new and could not find.
I need a script to list all directories/sub directories and files with permissions/groups/owners. The script would run from home directory and should capture every directory. How do I do this?
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