[ale] find usage...

[Geoffrey]

Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what the difference between these two "find" commands 
> is?
> 
> find . -atime +6 -exec ll | more
> find . -atime +6 -exec ll | more \;

-exec looks for a ';' as the command terminator.  I wouldn't expect 
either of these to work though.  The first does not have the command 
terminator.  The second does not have the requisite '{}' although I 
suspect that it may work, providing misleading results, assuming that 
'll' will simply be executed against the current directory.

The proper syntax is:

find . -atime +6 -exec ll {} \;

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Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
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