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Old 03-27-2009
find a file and print its size

I have a directory, /local/test/
under this directory is many subdirectories, each subdir has about 70 files, the 70 files are always the same names. I want to print to the screen the size of fileabc.txt in each of the subdirectories. I cannot seem to work with pipe and splats * because there are about 12,000 subdirectories in /local/test/
So each of these 12,000 subdirs contains a fileabc.txt and I want to know its size in each subdir.
I tryed this command and it didnt work

>cd /local/test/
>find . -name fileabc.txt | ls -lt
it obviously didnt work!

any ideas?
Thank you!!
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Old 03-27-2009
At least one of those should work
Code:
$ find /local/test/ -name 'fileabc.txt' -print | xargs ls -lt
$ find /local/test/ -name 'fileabc.txt' -exec ls -lt '{}' ';'
$ find /local/test/ -name 'fileabc.txt' -ls

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Old 03-27-2009
ls -ltR
# 4  
Old 03-27-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by ajp7701
I >cd /local/test/
>find . -name fileabc.txt | ls -lt
it obviously didnt work!

any ideas?
Thank you!!
Code:
 
find . -name "fileabc.txt" -ls -long

this will work Smilie
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