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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers [Solved] weird in find -exec command Post 302695211 by lsy on Sunday 2nd of September 2012 02:38:18 AM
Old 09-02-2012
both command suppose should return same file that consist *test* in the file name right? but the ls it return all the files in the directory.
eg inside the directory there are
Code:
file1
file2
file3
test1
test2
test3

when i execute
Code:
find /tmp/*test* -user `whoami` -mtime +1 -type f -exec rm -f {}\;

test1, test2 and test3 is removed

but when i execute
Code:
find /tmp/*test* -user `whoami` -mtime +1 -type f -exec ls -lrt {}\;

it return
Code:
file1
file2
file3
test1
test2
test3
file1
file2
file3
test1
test2
test3

Last edited by radoulov; 09-02-2012 at 01:43 PM..
 

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