[geeks] find - having a senior moment

John Francini francini at mac.com
Mon Jan 14 14:28:25 CST 2008


du (1) is your friend here.

j

On 14 Jan 2008, at 15:26, Brian Dunbar wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I'm having a senior moment - I wanted to do something I did last  
> week and
> I can't remember how I did it.
>
> Last week I ran a find command that produced output like so ..
>
> 95732   ./NonAgileFiles/t_agile60971292.doc
> 87060   ./NonAgileFiles/t_agile60978519.doc
> 112396  ./NonAgileFiles/t_agile61418345.doc
> 0       ./NonAgileFiles/New Text Document.txt
>
> With the first column being the size of the file.  Now how in the  
> name of
> Ogg did I do that?  It was so darn clever that I thought I didn't  
> need to
> write it down .. and now that I'm back from a long weekend I have  
> no idea
> how I did it.  Certainly this works ..
>
> find . -mtime +1095 -mtime -1460 -print -exec ls -l {} \;
>
> But it gives me a lot of extra stuff I'd rather not have - all I  
> need is
> the size of the file and it's path.
>
> I'd sure like to avoid having to cut all of the useless crap from  
> output.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Brian
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