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Old 10-26-2004
Bug how to write to file using fprintf in find command...
Smilie I once again am looking through the man pages and am still working on the find command to fully comprehend all its attributes.. i am a little stuck on a problem with how many options to -print there are and the only two I know how to use are printf and -print..
i can not make heads or tails of fprintf function from the man pages as far as how to use it to write to file.. It says that fprintf means file print format which is all good but how do you use it.. ??
any suggestions are welcome
thanx moxxx68Smilie Smilie Smilie
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Old 10-26-2004
It works like -printf, but you don't need the redirection, it outputs to a file. So, to output just the filenames with no paths to "outfile", do something like

Code:
find ./ -fprintf outfile "%f\n"

Then, all filenames will appear in "outfile" instead of STDOUT

Cheers
ZB
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Old 10-26-2004
MySQL
cheers
moxx68Smilie
 
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