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Hi all;

I'm having a problem when want to list a large number of files in current directory using find together with the prune option.

First i used this command but it list all the files including those in sub directories:

Code:

find . -name "*.dat" | xargs ls -ltr

Then i modified the command as below but it only works with small number of files:

Code:

find *.dat -prune | xargs ls -ltr

It throws error when i executed it in the directory that have a large number of files.

ksh: /usr/bin/find: 0403-027 The parameter list is too long.

Can someone help me to modify this code?Thank you in advance.

can you post the output of following commands..

Code:

getconf LINE_MAX

getconf ARG_MAX

and to long list files use

Code:

find . -name "*.date" -ls -long

vidyadhar85;

i try

Code:

find . -name "*.date" -ls -long

but it still list the files in subdirectory and it's not in the datetime order, and i'm not very sure to use

Code:

getconf LINE_MAX

getconf ARG_MAX

Any suggestions?