On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 08:11:30 -0700 (PDT), Al Sparks wrote:
> --- Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 7/5/06, Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Joachim Backes
> >
> > I get
> >
> > [root@bdc root]# find | xargs ls -l
> > xargs: unmatched single quote
> > [root@bdc root]#
>
> "xargs" is problematic when used with "find". Basically xargs is
> taking raw output and placing it at the end of the command line you're
> piping to. So if you have filenames that have characters which need
> to be escaped, the shell doesn't handle it too well.
>
> Also, if you're going to do a recursive list using "find", "xargs",
> and "ls" you're much better off using
> find | xargs ls -ld
perhaps better would be
find -exec ls -ld {} \;
Also useful to know is how to limit this to directories only, where you
would do something like
find -type d -exec ls -ld {} \;
or if you just want the paths and not the extra info, remove the -l
find -type d -exec ls -d {} \;
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