Sun 05 Apr 2015 09:59:28 AM UTC, original submission:
Hi,
Thanking you for a nice tool called find . I met with some confusion when i tried to use find, Please advice on this.
Please find the list of files in find_test .
[casper@localhost find_test]$ ls -lrt
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 casper users 0 Mar 27 18:34 test1
-rw-r--r-- 1 casper users 0 Mar 27 18:34 test2
-rw-r--r-- 1 casper users 0 Mar 27 18:34 test3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 27 18:35 root_test1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 27 18:35 root_test2
[casper@localhost find_test]$
when i tried to execute the command,
"find $PWD -not -user root -exec ls -l {} \;"
It gave me an output as,
[casper@localhost find_test]$ find $PWD -not -user root -exec ls -l {} \;
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 27 18:35 root_test1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 27 18:35 root_test2
-rw-r--r-- 1 casper users 0 Mar 27 18:34 test1
-rw-r--r-- 1 casper users 0 Mar 27 18:34 test2
-rw-r--r-- 1 casper users 0 Mar 27 18:34 test3
-rw-r--r-- 1 casper users 0 Mar 27 18:34 /home/casper/find_test/test2
-rw-r--r-- 1 casper users 0 Mar 27 18:34 /home/casper/find_test/test1
-rw-r--r-- 1 casper users 0 Mar 27 18:34 /home/casper/find_test/test3
which is not accurate , as i am expecting files that are not owned by root only.
but with the command, "find $PWD -not -user root -ls"
find gave me an output as,
[casper@localhost find_test]$ find $PWD -not -user root -ls
9182333 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 casper users 4096 Mar 27 18:35 /home/casper/find_test
8921411 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 casper users 0 Mar 27 18:34 /home/casper/find_test/test2
8918596 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 casper users 0 Mar 27 18:34 /home/casper/find_test/test1
8921412 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 casper users 0 Mar 27 18:34 /home/casper/find_test/test3
which looks good.
and my find version,
[casper@localhost find_test]$ find --version
find (GNU findutils) 4.4.2
about os,
[casper@localhost find_test]$ uname -a
Linux localhost 3.15.0-rc4-ARCH-00298-g9f1eb57 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri May 23 01:56:57 IST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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