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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers [Solved] weird in find -exec command Post 302695291 by Lem on Sunday 2nd of September 2012 02:10:24 PM
Old 09-02-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by alister
Notice that the -exec ls ... output shows duplicate filenames.
There, not here. Not with my GNU find, which works as expected.

Please, again, try yourself:
Code:
lem@biggy:/tmp$ touch {file,test}{1,2,3}
lem@biggy:/tmp$ find /tmp/*test* -ls
197009    0 -rw-rw-r--   1 lem      lem             0 set  2 20:03 /tmp/test1
197010    0 -rw-rw-r--   1 lem      lem             0 set  2 20:03 /tmp/test2
197011    0 -rw-rw-r--   1 lem      lem             0 set  2 20:03 /tmp/test3
lem@biggy:/tmp$ find /tmp/*test* -exec ls -l '{}' \;
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lem lem 0 2012-09-02 20:03 /tmp/test1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lem lem 0 2012-09-02 20:03 /tmp/test2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lem lem 0 2012-09-02 20:03 /tmp/test3
lem@biggy:/tmp$ find /tmp/*test* -exec ls -lr '{}' +
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lem lem 0 2012-09-02 20:03 /tmp/test3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lem lem 0 2012-09-02 20:03 /tmp/test2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lem lem 0 2012-09-02 20:03 /tmp/test1

Quote:
There is nothing in that find command that prints a matching file name twice (and non-consecutively), and since a directory cannot contain two identically-named files, the shell must be matching one or more directories with that pattern (in addition to *test* files in tmp, if any).
Strange. He run an -exec -ls -l, not an -execdir. And he didn't notice that the files were in different subdirectories!?

Quote:
With a directory path, the -exec predicates of those find commands will list or attempt to delete every regular file in that directory and its subdirectories, regardless of a file's name.
Of course.
So you're saying that his find is working as expected, too. Nice. Smilie
--
Bye

Last edited by Lem; 09-02-2012 at 03:36 PM..
 

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