[ale] find usage...

Robert Heaven robertheaven at earthlink.net
Sun Oct 10 22:07:15 EDT 2004


Maybe this is what you're looking for:

find . -atime  +6 -exec ls -l  {}  \;  |  more

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 21:02, Danny Cox wrote:

> CB,
> 
> On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 20:23, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me what the difference between these two "find" commands is?
> > 
> > find . -atime +6 -exec ll | more
> 
> 	This runs a 'find' and pipes it's output to more.
> 
> > find . -atime +6 -exec ll | more \;
> 
> 	This also runs a 'find', and pipes it's output to more, but you've
> given more a filename of ';', so it ignores stdin, and tells you that it
> can't open ";".
> 
> 	Perhaps you might try:
> 
> 	find . -atime +6 | xargs ll | more
> 
> which may or may not do what you wish.
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