Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 23:06:24 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Gregory Orange <gregory.orange@calorieking.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: long string using find and "-exec ls -ls" to find part-of filename Message-ID: <20140630060624.GA21157@ethic.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <53B0FA11.8020808@calorieking.com> References: <20140630045605.GA11147@ethic.thought.org> <53B0EFF2.80205@calorieking.com> <20140630052410.GA16901@ethic.thought.org> <53B0FA11.8020808@calorieking.com>
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 01:48:01PM +0800, Gregory Orange wrote:
> On 30/06/14 13:24, Gary Kline wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 01:04:50PM +0800, Gregory Orange wrote:
> >>How about this?
> >>find . -name foo.tar -o -name foo.tgz -o -name foo.tar.gz|xargs ls -lsi
> > yup. then WHY O WHY O WHY doesnt this work::
> > find . -name "foo.t*" |xargs ls -lsi
> > work? is it only my memory [[delusional] that made me think that
> > "foo.t*" expanded into your cmd string?? I thought the "*"
> > expanded into what you have to save the hacker typing/keystrokes.
>
> Curiously your command line works for me on both an Ubuntu (sh,
> bash) machine and a FreeBSD (sh, bash, csh, tcsh) machine. I would
> have expected the shell to expand * to and cause find to return an
> error, but it appears not. Perhaps it depends on the shell? It works
> for me on the shells listed above.
this is bloody bizzarre. the first//Only first time, your cmd
worked. ive used zsh since 1989 when I ported it to my 80286.
I Still use zsh. but as-is [zsh], it still only works the first
time. even with O's parens, no diff. I'm gng to try typing
bash[it] and see. WHY your oneliner worked once, not even
all the gods in hhell know.
just FWIW:
5436 find . -name "vbc.t*" -print exec `ls` {} \;
5437 cbin
5438 rgr find
5439 find . -name "vbc.t*" -print |xargs ls -l
from 65mins ago, the abv, here on "tao"
ive got ubuntu 14.04 here; freeebsd and backup on my server;
and a 'ripoff' redhat on my used 2cpu [unsed] desktop.
here, tao, is where I live and hack.
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Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix
Twenty-seven years of service to the Unix community.
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