What is the secret to locating files with the 'archive' bit set using 'find'?

Craig McGeachie craig@rhe.com.au
Thu May 17 14:54:00 GMT 2001


On 17 May 2001, at 14:45, malcolm.boekhoff wrote:
> Does anyone know whether there is a secret test that can be made to
> enable the "find" command to locate files on an NTFS disk that have
> the "archive" bit set?


-----------> test.sh
#!/bin/sh
archived=`attrib $1 | cut -c1-1`
if [ "$archived" = "A" ]
then
    exit 0
else
    exit 1
fi
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$ find . -exec ./test.sh {} \; -print


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