Command for getting the list of files with perms, owners, groups info. Useful to find the checksum of 2 machines/images.

find / | xargs ls -l | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 1,3,4,9

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By: pavanlimo

2009-07-21 08:41:59

cut find ls tr xargs

What Others Think

man find find -exec ls -l {} \; I don't really understand what you are trying to do with splitting the ls output but I bet you'd better off with awk if you show the desired output I'll tell you how

unixmonkey4704 · 794 weeks and 6 days ago

@unixmonkey4704: xargs is better, because it's much more efficient. -exec ... \; executes ls once for every single file, while xargs executes ls fewer times, using as many files per invocation as possible. Some implementatons of find(1) support a non-standard syntax (e.g. -exec ... +) that mimics xargs, but this is not portable. However, i agree that awk is better in this case: find / | sort | xargs ls -ld | awk '{print $1,$3,$4,$9,$10,$11}' This fixed two problems with the OP's command: First, the -d option must be specified to the ls command so that directory entries are listed themselves (not their contents). Second, the output from find is not sorted. If you want to compare the output between two machines, you need to sort it first.

inof · 794 weeks and 6 days ago

find -exec $cmd {} \; executes $cmd for each file, but find -exec $cmd {} \+ executes $cmd once with all files as arguments, just like xargs.

spatz · 794 weeks and 6 days ago

@spatz: You have read my comment above, haven't you? :-)

inof · 794 weeks and 6 days ago

rahimhh21 · 110 weeks and 1 day ago

Perfecthomepugs · 101 weeks and 6 days ago

pugpuppies95 · 63 weeks and 6 days ago

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