find command

Micky12345 · 03-03-2012, 08:21 AM

i have written a code

Code:

find . -type f | ls -l

my aim is to list only the files

but i am getting all the files and directories

why so???

T3RM1NVT0R · 03-03-2012, 08:24 AM

Hi Micky12345,

That is because you are piping the output of find command to ls -l and thus it is display files and directories. If you only want to display files then:

Code:

find . -type f

will suffice.

colucix · 03-03-2012, 09:57 AM

Code:

find . -type f -ls

if you want details. Use the -printf predicate to get even more details.

Regarding your first attempt, you actually need xargs to execute the ls command over the output of find:

Code:

find . -type f | xargs ls -l

rng · 03-04-2012, 04:18 AM

Good linux commands.

How can we use -printf here?

prowla · 03-04-2012, 08:23 AM

find . -type f -exec ls -ld {} \;

colucix · 03-04-2012, 11:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rng

How can we use -printf here?

For example, if you want to reproduce something similar to the output of ls -l (on OpenSuSE):

Code:

find . -type f -printf "%M %n %u %g %8s %Ty-%Tm-%Td %TH:%TM %f\n"

A lot of other format specifiers are available. Please, see man find for details.

rng · 03-04-2012, 07:00 PM

Thanks.