On 07/23/2012 09:59 AM, Enda wrote:
> Thanks Pádraig, Eric, Andreas and Jim,
>
>
> This almost gives the output that I want:
>
> find * -mtime 0 -exec ls -rt {} +
>
> Is there a way to list files not on a separate line, but one after the
> other with a space in between them (and a newline at the end)?, like
> '-m' except without the commas and the newline being only at end.
Sure, except that then you are giving yourself a security hole the
moment you find a file with a space in the name.
find * -mtime 0 -exec ls -rt {} + | tr '\n' ' '
> This gives the kind of output that I want except in the wrong order:
>
> find -mtime 0 -printf "%f\n"
Which has the same security hole. Basically, any time the separator
between file names can also occur in a file name, you are setting
yourself up for failure, so you are better off thinking about the
problem up front and reconsidering whether a space-separated list of
file names is what you really want.
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