Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3F0AF79A.2030207@alltel.net> Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 11:55:54 -0500 From: Ken Dibble User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: find -exec oddity References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030707171122.0206bd98@pop.sonic.net> <3F0AB445.7090105@alltel.net> <3F0AB9FD.236D42EE@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 >parameters "./" , "./files to backup.txt" , and "./idiot.txt" which are >the results of find. "./" is a directory, so ls prints its contents not >its name, that's why you see listings for all the files in the current >directory, followed by listings for "files to backup.txt" and >"idiot.txt". When you add "-d" to ls, you get just three lines of >output, corresponding to the three things that find found. How is this >confusing? > > > > Brian, Like I said, I'm an idiot. It did not occur to me that "./" was being passed to "ls" and that ls was just doing what it was told and listing the entire directory. Thanks for helping me out. Regards, Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/