Re: find -exec oddity

2003-07-08 Thread Ken Dibble
Randall R Schulz wrote: Ken, At 16:38 2003-07-07, Ken Dibble wrote: Ok, I'm an idiot. I've looked in the FAQ, searched the mail lists and checked sundry Unix sources (no, not the source code). Well, I doubt greatly that you're an idiot. Confusion is the prelude to enlightenment, after

Re: find -exec oddity

2003-07-08 Thread Brian Dessent
Ken Dibble wrote: As you can see, there are indeed some directories, but a whole bunch of files which shouldn't be there as well. The big question now is why are some files considered directories? I don't see the confusion here. You're feeding to ls -l the parameters ./ , ./files to

Re: find -exec oddity

2003-07-08 Thread Ken Dibble
Brian Dessent wrote: Ken Dibble wrote: As you can see, there are indeed some directories, but a whole bunch of files which shouldn't be there as well. The big question now is why are some files considered directories? I don't see the confusion here. You're feeding to ls -l the

find -exec oddity

2003-07-07 Thread Ken Dibble
Ok, I'm an idiot. I've looked in the FAQ, searched the mail lists and checked sundry Unix sources (no, not the source code). I can't make sense of this. $ find ./ -mtime -1 -print | wc -l 55 $ find ./ -mtime -1 -ls | wc -l 55 $ find ./ -mmin -1440 -ls | wc -l 55 $ find ./ -mtime -1

Re: find -exec oddity

2003-07-07 Thread Randall R Schulz
Ken, At 16:38 2003-07-07, Ken Dibble wrote: Ok, I'm an idiot. I've looked in the FAQ, searched the mail lists and checked sundry Unix sources (no, not the source code). Well, I doubt greatly that you're an idiot. Confusion is the prelude to enlightenment, after all... (Compare that with Eudora

Re: find -exec oddity

2003-07-07 Thread Brian Dessent
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