Detail abt following command

[vinothkumar kandasamy]

Hi,

$find . -xdev -mtime -5 -size +2000 -exec ll -d {} \;

what is the output of this command

[Ivan Krastev]

This will find files in local filesystem, without crossing mount points (-xdev), modified in last 5 days (-mtime -5) and with size (2000 blocks - one block is 512) and display long listing of results (ll -d).


regards,
ivan

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

man find would have explained it better!

below an extract from man of the switches you are using in your find command.

-xdev
A position-independent term that causes find to avoid crossing any file system mount points that exist below starting points enumerated in pathname_list. The mount point itself is visited, but entries below the mount point are not. Always true.


-mtime n
True if the file modification time subtracted from the initialization time is n-1 to n multiples of 24 h. The initialization time shall be a time between the invocation of the find utility and the first access by that invocation of the find utility to any file specified in its path operands.


-size n[c]
True if the file is n blocks long (512 bytes per block). If n is followed by a c, the size is in bytes.

-exec cmd
True if the executed cmd returns a zero value as exit status. The end of cmd must be punctuated by a semicolon (;) or a plus sign (+) (semicolon and plus are special to the shell and must be escaped). When + is used, cmd aggregates a set of pathnames and executes on the set. Any command arguments between the first occurrence of {} and + are ignored. The reason for preferring + to a ; is vastly improved performance. Any command argument {} is replaced by the current path name. cmd may contain supplementary code set characters.


hope this helps too!

kind regards
yogeeraj