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Old 04-19-2010
Long listing of files using find command on remote server via SSH
Hi ,

I am trying to find some files on a remote machine using the find command.

Code:
>ssh -q atukuri@remotehostname find /home/atukuri/ -name abc.txt 
/home/atukuri/abc.txt

The above command works fine and lists the file, but if I want to do a long listing of files (ls -l) its not working .

Code:
>ssh -q  atukuri@remotehostname find /home/atukuri/ -name abc.txt | xargs ls -l
/home/atukuri/abc.txt: No shuch file or directory
>ssh -q  atukuri@remotehostname find /home/atukuri/ -name abc.txt -exec ls -l {} \;
find: incomplete statement


Need help is getting ls -l work in the above context.
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by pludi; 04-20-2010 at 03:15 PM..
# 2  
Old 04-19-2010
Code:
ssh -q atukuri@remotehostname 'find /home/atkuri -name abc.txt -exec ls -l {} \;'
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxx users 49 2010-04-19 16:03 ./abc.txt

alternatively ls in find does a long listing by default

From the man page of find.

Code:
-ls    True; list current file in `ls -dils' format on standard output.
          The block counts are of 1K blocks, unless the environment  vari-
          able  POSIXLY_CORRECT  is set, in which case 512-byte blocks are
          used.  See the UNUSUAL FILENAMES section for  information  about
          how unusual characters in filenames are handled.

so you can rather use
Code:
find /home/atukuri/ -name abc.txt -ls

HTH,
PL
# 3  
Old 04-20-2010
seems the single quotes did the trick. The following code worked just fine

Code:
>ssh -q atukuri@remotehostname 'find /home/atukuri/ -name abc.txt -exec ls -l {} \;'
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxx users 49 2010-04-20 10:03 /home/atukuri/abc.txt

But what if we use some commands which involves quotes , say awk to print the file size and file name?

When I tried I am getting syntax errors.
Code:
>ssh -q atukuri@remotehostname 'find /home/atukuri/ -name abc.txt -exec ls -l {} \;| awk '{print $5 $6}' '
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1

Last edited by atukuri; 04-20-2010 at 03:14 PM.. Reason: corrections
 
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