Since tar may be run multiple times, you need to use the append option, not the create option.
How about:
If you have GNU find, you can use + instead of ; for increased efficiency as it will bundle several files into each call:
No. Do not use -exec ... + in cases like this. If there are enough files to trigger an invocation of one of these -exec primaries before the find has processed the entire file hierarchy, the list of files processed by each -exec primary is likely to have a different set of operands that the other -exec primaries. For example, the 1st invocation of ls might process 100 files, the 1st invocation of tar might process 95 files, and the 1st invocation ofrm might process 105 files. The 2nd invocations of ls and tar will then fail because the 1st invocation of rm will have removed some of the files before they were listed and archived.
If there aren't enough files in the file hierarchy being processed by find to trigger invocations of of those tree utilities until the entire file hierarchy has been traversed, all three utilities could be run in parallel again allowing rm to remove some or all of the files before they are listed and archived.
Hi,
Happy new year.
Would you be so kind to explain me what does this instruction :
find /rep/app -type l -exec ls -l {} \;> allink.lst
Many thanks. (2 Replies)
Hi,
i have query about "find" command. Do I need to put the command after -exec in single quotes? Why?
For ex. see output of these three find commands.
Any explanations?
cheers,
-Ashish (2 Replies)
can we use |(pipe operator) with find -exec.....?
or can pipe the output of find command to another command...?
if not, why...?
pls explain (3 Replies)
Hi,
i would like to rename files in directories and subdirs.
Files contains specific french or strange caracters.
I want to replace all non alpha-numerics by _ (underscore)
First, i made this, but i think the "for" is limited.
How can i do this directly by FIND ?
for file in $(find .... (0 Replies)
Hello All,
Is there a way to make exec do a couple of operations on a single input from find?
For example,
find . -type d -exec ls -l "{}" ";"
I would like to give the result of each "ls -l" in the above to a wc. Is that possible?
I want to ls -l | wc -l inside... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I am a linux newbe. I want to install a program. I can download it only with wget command from internet.
As far as i know this wget command does not transfer the exacutable flags.
Because of that i wanted to find all configure files and change their mod to 744.
I found this... (1 Reply)
This is a huge issue. and I need it fixed ASAP.
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Hi Friends,
Please help me to sort out this problem, I am running this in centos o/s and whenever I run this script I am getting "find: missing argument to `-exec' " but when I run the same code in the command line I didn't find any problem. I am using perl script to run this ... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
Please could someone help with the following command requirement.
I basically need to find files NEWER than a given file and order the result on time.
My attempt so far is as follows:
find . -newer <file_name> -exec ls -lrt {} ;\
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Guys,
I want to find the log files greather than 23 days and i want to perform 2 things here.
one is to list the files and second is to gzip the files. hope this can be done using sh -c option. but not sure the exact command.
find . -name "*.log" -mtime +23 -exec ls -la {} \;
... (5 Replies)