[PLUG] Find Issues

[Paul Heinlein]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Michael Montagne wrote:

> The -0r seemed to do the trick....or did it...
> This is my example:
>  find . -type f -mtime +1 -print0|xargs -0 ls -al
>  total 292824                             
>  drwxrwx---    2 ftpuser  ftpgroup     4096 Mar 27 15:06 .
>  drwxrwx---    9 nobody   ftpgroup     4096 Mar 22 13:33 ..
>  -rwxrwx---    1 ftpuser  ftpgroup  6103643 Mar 27 14:37 FOGA -
>  Architecturals 000622 details 0000-1999.zip
>  -rwxrwx---    1 ftpuser  ftpgroup 65627696 Mar 27 14:45 FOGA -
>  Architecturals 000622 details 2000-2999.zip
>  -rwxrwx---    1 ftpuser  ftpgroup 67362233 Mar 27 15:06 FOGA -
>  Architecturals 000622 drawings Xrefs1.zip
>  -rwxrwx---    1 ftpuser  ftpgroup 108419762 Mar 27 15:20 FOGA -
>  Architecturals 000622 drawings Xrefs2.zip
>  -rwxrwx---    1 ftpuser  ftpgroup 51995357 Mar 27 14:54 FOGA -
>  Architecturals 000622 drawings.zip
> 
> find . -type f -mtime +1 -print0|xargs -0r ls -al
> 
> Adding the r shows no resluts when there should be since these files
> were modified more than 1 day ago.

Take a peek at find's -daystart option to see why you're getting this
sort of results.

-- Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>