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Old 11-29-2013
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Originally Posted by Scott
Yes, because you used the "ls" option, something peculiarly missing from your original post.
ls {};\ should execute ls /usr/bin, and ovs-pki is in /usr/bin, why it doesn't output ?
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Old 11-29-2013
It's performing the exec on sbin, not both directories.
Code:
find / \( -name bin -o -name sbin \) -exec ls {} \;

But by introducing ls, it is very different from what you asked originally
 
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