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Date: | Mon, 14 May 2012 18:29:57 -0400 |
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Subject: | problem with find's -size and -exec options |
From: | "j. k. colligan" <jkevinc AT gmail DOT com> |
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Friends - I just noticed a difference in behavior between Cygwin's "find" and the one in Linux, or so it seems. I was trying to locate files smaller than a given size, and thus ran find . -size -4000c That worked, and listed the file names only for files < 4000 bytes in size. But if I run find . -size -4000c -exec ls -l {} \; it turns out that *all* files are listed! (Plus the small ones at the end of the list.) This surprised me. In other similar cases I've run in the past, the earlier-in-the-command-line filters took effect before the exec. The Linux version of "find" doesn't operate that way: in the latter case, only the "small" files are passed to ls. And if one replaces "-4000c" with "+4000c", it works as I'd expect. And yeah, I tried escaping that minus sign for the Cygwin shell, a la find . -size \-4000c -exec ls -l {} \; Same unexpected (to me) result. Am I way outta whack here, of is this a real problem? Thanks! cheers, j. kev jkevinc AT gmail DOT com Monday, 2012.05.14 @ 1830 EDT -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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