[Tfug] When RTFM is not enough

[Bowie J. Poag]

> find / \( -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 \) -type f -ls &> s_id.out

bloat.

> find / -perm -2 '!' -type l -ls | egrep -v "dev" &> writable.out

bloat

> find / -nouser -o -nogroup -ls &> unowned.out

bloat

> find / -size +10000k &> bigfile.out

bloat

>
> touch -t 07060900 tmp_find

bloat (heh, not really...just seeing if you're paying attention..)

> find / -newer tmp_find -ls &> newer.out

bloat..

Terrible, terrible, terrible. Stop bloating! Your system will hate you! Try 
this instead:

bashism: for i in `locate foo`; do ls -l $i; done

english:  For each instance of "foo" found, show me the details of it with ls.


Replace "ls -l $i" with whatever command you're interested in performing on 
$i. ls is a good choice, since it provides alot of different search options 
including listings by inode, date, permissions, wildcarding, ownership, size, 
etc. Nothing stops you from tossing in an awk or grep statement either.

Dammit.