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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Using -exec with and without -name Post 302591026 by v_m1986 on Wednesday 18th of January 2012 09:29:27 AM
Old 01-18-2012
Error Using -exec with and without -name
Hi,

I need to delete the last N days file using find.
I am trying to use

find . -mtime -10 -print

which lists down required files.
but when i use

find . -mtime -10 -exec ls -lrt {} \;

it gives me all files in the directory including the required files but the required files are having ./ preceded with them.

Now when I tried
find . -name '*.txt' -mtime -10 -exec ls -lrt {} \;

It gave me proper output i.e. only required .txt files.
But i want to check for all the files in that directory and not just .txt files.
Can someone please help me out and let me know why -exec is responding differently and how can i achieve what i need to get?

Thanks
Vikas
 

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pcre-config

PCRE-CONFIG(1)						      General Commands Manual						    PCRE-CONFIG(1)

NAME

       pcre-config - program to return PCRE configuration

SYNOPSIS

       pcre-config [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--version] [--libs] [--libs-posix] [--cflags] [--cflags-posix]

DESCRIPTION

       pcre-config returns the configuration of the installed PCRE libraries: the options required to compile a program to use them.

OPTIONS

       --prefix  Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture independent files (e.g. /usr) to standard output.

       --exec-prefix
		 Writes  the  directory  prefix  used in the PCRE installation for architecture dependent files (normally the same as --prefix) to
		 standard output.

       --version Writes the version of PCRE installed to standard output.

       --libs	 Writes to standard output the command line options required to link with PCRE (e.g. -lpcre).

       --libs-posix
		 Writes to standard output the command line options required to link with the  PCRE  POSIX  emulation  library	(e.g.  -lpcreposix
		 -lpcre).

       --cflags  Writes  to standard output the command line options required to compile files that use PCRE (this often includes some -I options,
		 but is blank on debian systems).

       --cflags-posix
		 Writes to standard output the command line options required to compile files that use the  PCRE  POSIX  emulation  library  (this
		 often includes some -I options, but is blank on debian systems). Suppress printing of filenames when searching multiple files.

       AUTHOR
	      This manual page was written by Mark Baker <mark@mnb.org.uk>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       pcre(3)

																    PCRE-CONFIG(1)
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