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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers [Solved] weird in find -exec command Post 302693991 by lsy on Thursday 30th of August 2012 04:28:02 AM
Old 08-30-2012
[Solved] weird in find -exec command

i feel weird with this 2 command
Code:
find /tmp/*test* -user `whoami` -mtime +1 -type f -exec rm -f {}\;
find /tmp/*test* -user `whoami` -mtime +1 -type f -exec ls -lrt {}\;

the first one return correct which only delete those filename that consist *test* where second command it listed all the files inside the directory which including those filename that not *test*

can someone help to explain?


Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Please use code tags next time for your code and data.

Last edited by zaxxon; 08-30-2012 at 05:28 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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whoami(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						whoami(1B)

NAME
whoami - display the effective current username SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/whoami DESCRIPTION
whoami displays the login name corresponding to the current effective user ID. If you have used su to temporarily adopt another user, whoami will report the login name associated with that user ID. whoami gets its information from the geteuid and getpwuid library routines (see getuid and getpwnam(3C), respectively). FILES
/etc/passwd username data base ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWscpu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
su(1M), who(1), getuid(2), getpwnam(3C), attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 14 Sep 1992 whoami(1B)
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