UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,
I want to run ls -lrt command along with find command. I want to get the list of files with timestamp, owner, group and permissions for the files larger than 1024k. I tried the below command, but it displays only the file names.

ls -lrt | find . -name "*.*" -size +1024k -print


Any help

Thanks

Code:

find . -name "*.*" -size +1024k -print | xargs /bin/ls -lrt

- nilesh

Something like this?

Code:

find . -name "*.*" -size +1024k -exec ls -lrt {} \;

Regards

Nilesh and Franklin

Thanks for your help.

Thanks

Thank you too - I'm just becoming more familiar with Linux and I was looking for something like this off and on for awhile

oh btw - When you send in the -exec command with the ls -(options) command, why do you need to add the "{} \;"?

Hi and welcome,

In the manpage of the find command there is an explanation of the -exec action and the use of {}.

Regards

The {} gets replaced with the found file's name, and the \; shows where the -exec command line ends, so you can continue to specify other options to find.
You could even have multiple -exec actions:

Code:

find . -type f -exec ls -l {} \; -exec touch {} \;

Without the \; how would you know where the first -exec command ends and we are back in find's command line proper again? The command you -exec could even be another find so looking for familiar options is not a good way to disambiguate; and besides, other programs than find have options like -type and -name too.

Having said that, -exec is usually the last thing you do, and the file name of the found file is usually the last thing in that command line, so it does seem a bit redundant in those cases. A common exception would be the mv command where the found file is usually the thing you want to move.