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Subject: Re: problem with find's -size and -exec options
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 17:53:06 -0500
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On 5/14/2012 5:29 PM, j. k. colligan wrote:

> 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!

Looks like the problem is that find returns directories.

Try "find -type f -size -4000c -ls"

(yes, find already has ls built in, no need to use exec).
-- 
René Berber


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