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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 11:55:54 -0500
From: Ken Dibble <kdibble AT alltel DOT net>
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Subject: Re: find -exec oddity
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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


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