long string using find and "-exec ls -ls" to find part-of filename

[Gary Kline]

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Of_Interest: With 27++ years  of service  to the  Unix  community.

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 01:03:59PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> Gary,
> 
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> > =====
> > Organization: Thought Unlimited.  Public service Unix since 1986.
> > Of_Interest: With 27++ years  of service  to the  Unix  community.
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:09:04PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> >> > find . -name foo.tar -o -name foo.tgz -o -name foo.tar.gz|xargs ls -lsi
> >>
> >> With parenthesis:
> >>
> >> find . \( -name foo.tar -o -name foo.tgz -o -name foo.tar.gz \) |xargs ls -lsi
> >>
> >> Olivier
> >>
> >> >
> >
> >         right! but 4 more keystrokes. :_)
> 
> And 33 keystrokes to complain for the extra 4s! And I did not count
> the line break and click on "send" :)
> 
> Olivier
> 
> >         gary
	well or Alas, I wrote three more paragraphs but hit an extra key 
	and sent it.  BOING.

	Reason my try failed was that I was searching for "foo" instead 
	of "vbc.tar/vbc.tgz/vbc.tar.gz.  if I have a foo.c|tar|tgz it is
	junked.

	ANYWAY, the thing learned tonight is that it's *XARGS* <cmd>
	instead of -exec abcfubarCmd.  

	bedtime here.

	thanks you guys!  I's gonna put this stuff in a sh script so I
	never have to waste ttwo++ hours.

	gary



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             Twenty-seven years of service to the Unix community.