Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 01:02:51 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) Cc: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@roguetrader.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggested addition to /etc/security Message-ID: <199711020102.BAA20376@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Nov 1997 18:04:39 GMT." <E0xRhuZ-0004BT-00@oak67.doc.ic.ac.uk>
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> On Nov 1, 10:58am, Brandon Gillespie wrote:
> > > > find / -nouser -nogroup
> > > Shouldn't this be "find / -nouser -o -nogroup -print"?
> > Yeah, or even better:
> >
> > files=`find / -nouser -o -nogroup -print`
> > ls -ldF $files
> >
> > (this looks better than find / -nouser -o -nogroup -exec ls -ldF {} \;)
>
> Looks better? They should produce identical output. "find / -nouser -o
> -nogroup -print | xargs -n 30" is more efficient btw :)) however
> using -exec with find is othe only one that works with filenames with
> embedded spaces.
Check the -print0 option on find. That, and the -0 option to xargs
makes it a far better choice than -exec.
BTW, why the -n 30 to xargs ?
>
> Niall
> ,
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