[Gllug] find mystery

[Ryland, Peter]

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 09:39 +0000, Craig Millar wrote:
> I'm having trouble with find, as demonstrated:
> 
> craig at lear:~> pwd
> /home/craig
> craig at lear:~> find . -name *.jpg -exec ls -lh {} \;
> ./bin/Last.fm/cache/static1.last.fm_coverart_130x130_1416458.jpg
> ./bin/Last.fm/cache/static1.last.fm_coverart_130x130_146342.jpg
> 
> 8< -------- snip the rest, working normally ------- >8
> 
> craig at lear:~> cd Documents/
> craig at lear:~/Documents> find . -name *.jpg -exec ls -lh {} \;
> find: paths must precede expression
> Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression]

BTW, you may find:

find . -ls

easier than:

find . -exec ls -l {} \;

but is less configurable in output.

Pete


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