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May 13
2009

Use find -ls and save yourself a few keystrokes

Posted by: Robin Webster in Infrastructure

Tagged in: IBM AIX , HP-UX

Robin Webster

I've been typing find / -size +10000 -exec ls -l {} ; for the last 15 years.  (find any file that's over 5000Kb (10000*512 bytes) in size) 

The other day my colleague pointed out I could just type  find / -size +10000 -ls

That's about 14 keystrokes per command that I have wasted. If I typed that on average once a week for the last 15 years that's 15 x 52 x 2 x 14 =  21840 key strokes wasted. I wonder how many calories that is.

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