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On Friday 19 November 2010 16:40:37 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2010-11-19, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > Hello list, |
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> > Just to expose my ignorance again, would someone lift my blinkers |
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> > please? I'm recovering from an infection and my brain is stuck. |
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> > It's time to start pruning old stuff from the website I run, which |
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> > has 2200 files in 200 directories. |
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> > I'm trying to find old images like this: |
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> > find . -iname \*.jpg -exec ls '-cdl' {} \; | cut -d \ -f 5-10 |
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> It's obvious how that command finds old images. Can you explain what |
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> it's supposed to do? |
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The cut command simply strips off the permissions, owner, group and file |
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size. |
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Never mind, anyway. I've done it by using separate steps instead of |
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trying to combine them. I'm still puzzled though at the different |
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behaviour of ls between command-line and execution by find. |
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Rgds |
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Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23. |