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# 8  
Old 12-21-2010
Try running your script as a root user... find complains about permissions a lot when I use it, if I don't use sudo.. Because of the permissions to certain directories,

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Perhaps there are directories in those locations that you don't have read permissions on? Try ls -la to see if that is the case.
# 9  
Old 12-23-2010
Hi again. I tried on another system and it says :
Code:
(MorpheusC@elitter)(~)$ ./a /home/MorpheusC/ 100 files.txt
find: -size: +100k: illegal trailing character

# 10  
Old 12-26-2010
Quote:
find: -size: +100k: illegal trailing character
There is much variation in the syntax and options for the "find" command across different implementations of unix and Linux.
Virtually every variants of "find" allows "c" (characters) for the size units. Some versions also allow "k" (kilobytes), "m" (megabytes) and even "g" (gigabytes).
You have found one which does not allow "k" (kilobytes) for the units. This is not at all unusual.
# 11  
Old 12-27-2010
Hi. It worked with c, but i have a problem. Dont know how to display the total size in bytes of all the files.

The actual code of the script is :
Code:
#!/bin/sh
find $1 -type f -size +$2c -exec ls -lh {} \; >$3

After ./a /home/MorpheusC/ 100 files.txt had written in files.txt this :
Code:
-rw-r--r--  1 MorpheusC  MorpheusC   773B Mar 17  2010 /home/MorpheusC/.cshrc
-rw-r--r--  1 MorpheusC  MorpheusC   398B Mar 17  2010 /home/MorpheusC/.login
-rw-r--r--  1 MorpheusC  MorpheusC   113B Mar 17  2010 /home/MorpheusC/.mailrc
-rw-r--r--  1 MorpheusC  MorpheusC   218B Mar 17  2010 /home/MorpheusC/.profile
-rw-------  1 MorpheusC  MorpheusC   3.5K Dec 27 07:15 /home/MorpheusC/.bash_history

I want to display in the files.txt only the name of the file and size in Bytes. At the end of the command to display the total size of files without that restriction of size. Just total like this :
Code:


Code:



./a /home/MorpheusC/ 100 files.txt
Total : xxxx bytes

and in the files.txt to write just the name and the file size name:size in Bytes.

I tried to put another ls -lh in the script after argument 3 but no luck.
Thanks in advance.
# 12  
Old 12-27-2010
Please remember that
Code:
find .... -exec command \;

executes a single command for each file found. You are running "ls -lh" on each file, from your current working directory. If you want to see what command would be invoked, change the command to:
Code:
find .... -exec echo command \;

Hope this helps.
# 13  
Old 12-27-2010
There is any possibility to execute "ls -lh" for the directory, not for each file in the directory?
# 14  
Old 12-27-2010
Hm... . I think
Code:
find . -type f -size 1k -exec dirname {} \; | sort -u | xargs ls -lh

would give you what you want. Note that if you are looking for how much disk space the files are taking up, use du with the -hsS options instead of ls.
 
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