Re: ls and while

From: Steven Langdale (Langdale_Steven@PERKINS.COM)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 09:18:37 EST

Hello

There are a couple of problems here:

1. The find is not displaying the same info as "ls -ltr"
2. Too much data is being processed by the xargs command. You want to do
one line at a time, "xargs -n1" is needed for that.

Here is an example of what you may want to do, it's probably inefficient,
but its similar to your original lines....

find . -name "*.*" | xargs ls -ltr |while read FILESTATUS NUMBER OWNER
GROUP
do
  echo $FILESTATUS" "$NUMBER
done

Thanks

Steven

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I currently have a script that does the following

    ls -ltr *.$EXTENSION 2>/dev/null | while read FILESTATUS NUMBER OWNER
GROUP

    do

        something

    done

I am hitting the arg list too long problem on the ls command when there are
a long list of files

I have tried replacing ls with find but get an error that "do is
unexpected"

find . -name '*.$EXTENSION' | xargs while read FILESTATUS NUMBER OWNER
GROUP

Can anyone help with the syntax required, please

John

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