[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding old files

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-11-19, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 19:18 on Friday 19 November 2010, Peter
> Humphrey did opine thusly:
>
>> On Friday 19 November 2010 16:40:37 Grant Edwards wrote:
>> > On 2010-11-19, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote:
>> > > Hello list,
>> > >
>> > > Just to expose my ignorance again, would someone lift my blinkers
>> > > please? I'm recovering from an infection and my brain is stuck.
>> > >
>> > > It's time to start pruning old stuff from the website I run, which
>> > > has 2200 files in 200 directories.
>> > >
>> > > I'm trying to find old images like this:
>> > > find . -iname \*.jpg -exec ls '-cdl' {} \; | cut -d \  -f 5-10
>> >
>> > It's obvious how that command finds old images.  Can you explain what
>> > it's supposed to do?
>>
>> The cut command simply strips off the permissions, owner, group and file
>> size.
>>
>> Never mind, anyway. I've done it by using separate steps instead of
>> trying to combine them. I'm still puzzled though at the different
>> behaviour of ls between command-line and execution by find.
>
> ls as you are using it is an option to find (not an app or a shell
> builtin).  So you need to do

No, in his case "ls" it's an app that's executed by the "find" command by
as part of the handling of the find command's "-exec" clause.

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