[Gllug] shell quoting problem

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:01:49AM +0100, Alain wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:51:05AM +0100, Andy Millar wrote:
> > Have you tried something like:
> > 
> > find / -name "*John Smith*"
> > 
> > And, if you want to ls them, you could:
> > 
> > ls -l `find / -name "*John Smith*"`
> 
> * locate (essentially) does the same job as 'find /' but is much faster.

But will not find recent files.

> * your solution has the same space problem.

  find / -name "*John Smith*" | xargs -iXXX ls -l "XXX"
 
or

  find / -name "*John Smith*" -exec ls -l {\} \;

The xargs solution is more efficient.

-- 
Bruce

Bitterly it mathinketh me, that I spent mine wholle lyf in the lists
against the ignorant.  -- Roger Bacon, "Doctor Mirabilis"
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