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Hi all,

Am wanting to do a ls -l of the files and do a cat of it at the same time, ideally, I am hoping that the following work but obvisouly it is not working to what I am wanting it to ... hu hu hu

Code:

 
find . -name "BACKUP_TIMESTAMP.log" -exec "ls -l basename {} ; cat {}" \;

BACKUP_TIMESTAMP.log are one-liners that contain the date and time of when the backup was taken.

From the find syntax above, I guess the experts/gurus would know that am wanting to be able to a ls -l and then cat the content of the files found.

Can anyone suggest how I can get this to work the way that I want it to?

Thanks in advance.

Try this

Code:

 
find . -name "BACKUP_TIMESTAMP.log" -exec ls -l {} \; -exec cat {} \;