find -exec oddity
Brian Dessent
brian@dessent.net
Tue Jul 8 07:14:00 GMT 2003
Ken Dibble wrote:
> I can't make sense of this.
>
> $ find ./ -mtime -1 -print | wc -l
> 55
>
> $ find ./ -mtime -1 -exec ls -l '{}' \; | wc -l
> 2046
Try running "find . -mtime -1" (-print is assumed) and look at the
output. In addition to files, find returns directories that match the
criteria. Add "-type f" if you only want files. If you invoke "ls -l"
on a directory it prints the directory's contents rather than printing
its name -- you can supply it with "-d" if you wish for it to list
directory names insted of contents. I think that's what you are seeing
here.
Brian
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