Re: unix command question

Lee,

If you quit using -exec you will do yourself a big favor.

That line will fork a shell for each directory found by find.

It can be rewritten as:
  find . -type d | xargs ls -ld

Jared

On Wednesday 02 May 2001 02:05, Robertson Lee - lerobe wrote:
> oops, I missed off the -exec bit.
>
> find . -type d -exec ls -ld {} \; 2>/dev/null
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> Cheers
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> Lee
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