Terminated by signal 13
 

Happy New Year Everyone!

I wrote a single line to search for any file that was modified/created on a certain date. To be cleared, as soon as it finds one file (any file) quit searching; here is the line:

find . -exec stat -c "%y %n" '{}' \; | cut --delimiter=' ' -f1,4 | grep -m 1 2011-01-01

I get what I want, but as soon as it finds the first one it quits and it spits out many many lines of "find: `stat' terminated by signal 13".

What is wrong with my one-line command? And, can anyone help me correct this line so I only get one line output without the "find: `stat' terminated by signal 13"?

Thank you in advance.

Bellsal

broken pipe
 

Hi,

since you tell grep to quit after its first match the pipe is also closed. And that is exactly what signal 13 means:
Broken pipe: write to pipe with no readers

Here is a working example how to find all files that were modified on 1/Jan/2011
Read
man find

for more options on the output format.

PS: I am not sure, if the '!' has to be escaped as I did in my example. On my bash it works with an escaped '\!' as well as unescaped '!'.

Thanks CRTS,

One last question, I don't have "-newermt" as an option to the "find" command. Are you using a different version of "find"? My version is "GNU find version 4.1.20".

bellsal

Hi,

I just looked into the manpage. The -newerXY feature was first implemented in version 4.3.3.
Can you upgrade your 'find'? If not we'll have to look for a workaround.

One more question, if upgrading is not an option:
Does your 'find' have the -newer option implemented? If yes, then here is a possible workaround:

Ok,

been reading the man-page. As it appears the '-quit' option is also not implemented in your version. However, I discovered that find does not spit out an error message when it encounters a broken pipe but simply quits. So the following is probably a good option for you:

CRTS,

You have been a great help. Your last suggestion is the one that works for me.

Thanks,

bellsal