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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting find command listing Post 302722021 by Don Cragun on Friday 26th of October 2012 08:04:00 AM
Old 10-26-2012
I said to run ls with the l (letter 'l', not digit '1') and f options with no operands. However, using either -1f or -lf will be fine. But, by specifying a globbing pattern as an operand to ls, the shell that invoked ls expanded *.WAV into a sorted list of filenames before calling ls. It will also work as I intended if you specify one or more operands that are the pathnames of files of type directory.

I repeat: run the command ls -lf(with no file operands) in a directory in which find reported .WAV files that were not in sorted order. It won't produce a listing of just .WAV files and it won't search subdirectories, but it will give you a listing of all files in that directory in unsorted directory order.

Also note that the find command you provided in your 1st posting on this thread:
Code:
find -name *.WAV

is using a non-standard extension I've never seen before. On standard versions of the find utility, the first argument to the find utility would have to be the name of a directory.

Since you didn't quote *.WAVI also have to assume that there were either no .WAV files or only one .WAV files in that directory. Otherwise, the shell would have expanded *.WAV and would have generated another syntax error in find.
 

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