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

Olivier Nicole olivier.nicole at cs.ait.ac.th
Mon Jun 30 06:04:00 UTC 2014


Gary,

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
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> 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

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