Sponsored Content
Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Find command gave unexpected results Post 302523066 by poornima on Tuesday 17th of May 2011 07:34:08 PM
Old 05-17-2011
Data Find command gave unexpected results

Hi,

I recently executed a find command that caused unexpected permission changes and we had to do a full system restore. Can someone please explain what this command would do?

find /staging/admin/scr * -exec chmod 755 '{}' +

It caused file permissions inside / to be modified strangely.

Can someone let me know why?
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Sending find command results to email

This is probably simple so forgive me... I just want to find all files in a folder created within the last 10 minutes... This is easy: # find /home/folder -cmin -10 If the find command locates any files created in the last ten minutes I want it to send an email alert. I just want to... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: gardellap
3 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

edit results of a find command

Hi Purpose is to have a utility command to find and edit files . I tried a function like the following in my .profile file function vifind(){ find . -name $1 -print -exec vi {} \; } Is this correct? is there a better way to do it? I see this behaving a bit strange in case of AIX, and... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: grep_whoami
6 Replies

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Unexpected Results

Hello, When I run this script, here's what I get: Searching ... found 1111 2222 3333 ..... 7777 ..... 8888 9999 in 95_test Search completed. I expected only to see what number was found in the file, not including the ones not found. Thanks for your help! #!/bin/sh (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: SSims
1 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Unexpected Results (at least I did not expect them)

I have two sripts running in bash. The first one uncompresses log files and moves them to a working directory using uncompress -c and > output to new directory. It then creates one control record to assure our search returns a record. It then calls or executes the second script, which is a grep for... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: altamaha
6 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Unexpected results when triggered from cron

Following script gives different results when triggered from Cron compared to when triggered from command line. It is not able to assign values to some variables when triggered from cron. Can any one help? Its a very simple script Script - #! /bin/ksh sFile=$1 sEnv=$2 sWaitFile=$3... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: sumeet
1 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Place 'find' results within TeX command

Hi, In an effort to collect all my .java-files and place them in a LaTeXfile (using the listings environment of latex), i tried to use ex. So what i have now is: find . -name "*\.java" > latex ex latex <<HERE %s/\(.*\)/\\lstinputlisting{\1} wq HERE So i try to escape the '\' with... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: HannesBBR
1 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Comm giving unexpected results

Hi I am comparing two files with comm -13 < (sort acc11.txt) < (sort acc12.txt) > output.txt purpose: Get non matching records which are in acc12 but not in acc11... TI am getting WRONG output. Is there any constraints with record length with comm? The above files are the two consective ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: vedanta
2 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Seeing unexpected results when i run through cronjob

Hi I'm having hard time here with below script. If i run script manually i see expected results but, if i keep this script in cron job i'm getting unexpected results. Unexpected results means even though condition is true,cronjob returning output of else condition. This script and cronjob... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: buzzme
2 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

ksh script find command not printing any results

Hello, Hitting a wall on this one. When at the command prompt it works fine: # find /home/testuser -name 'PAINT*canvasON.txt' /home/testuser/PAINT_canvasON.txt # pwd /home/testuser # ls -l PAINT*canvasON.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root user 23 Feb 07 02:58 PAINT_canvasON.txt... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: seekryts15
2 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Find with rm command gives strange results

I want to remove any files that are older than 2 days from a directory. It deletes those files. Then it comes back with a message it is a directory. What am I doing wrong here? + find /mydir -mtime +2 -exec rm -f '{}' ';' rm: /mydir is a directory (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jtamminen
2 Replies
FINDRULE(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      FINDRULE(1p)

NAME
findrule - command line wrapper to File::Find::Rule USAGE
findrule [path...] [expression] DESCRIPTION
"findrule" mostly borrows the interface from GNU find(1) to provide a command-line interface onto the File::Find::Rule heirarchy of modules. The syntax for expressions is the rule name, preceded by a dash, followed by an optional argument. If the argument is an opening parenthesis it is taken as a list of arguments, terminated by a closing parenthesis. Some examples: find -file -name ( foo bar ) files named "foo" or "bar", below the current directory. find -file -name foo -bar files named "foo", that have pubs (for this is what our ficticious "bar" clause specifies), below the current directory. find -file -name ( -bar ) files named "-bar", below the current directory. In this case if we'd have omitted the parenthesis it would have parsed as a call to name with no arguments, followed by a call to -bar. Supported switches I'm very slack. Please consult the File::Find::Rule manpage for now, and prepend - to the commands that you want. Extra bonus switches findrule automatically loads all of your installed File::Find::Rule::* extension modules, so check the documentation to see what those would be. AUTHOR
Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> from a suggestion by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
File::Find::Rule perl v5.12.4 2011-09-19 FINDRULE(1p)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 10:08 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy