Re: Did I found a bug in "ls"?

[Philip Rowlands]

On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Major Péter wrote:

> I would like to list some folders with they block-sizes, but only specific 
> folders am I interested.
> So I would like to use find to list the correct folders for me:
> ls `find . -type d -user foo -name "*"`
> this is not working because ls can't find folders with spaces in there name,

find uses an implicit "-print" argument, but in this case please look at 
find's "-print0" option. This version of the above command should work:

$ find . -type d -user foo -print0 | xargs -0 ls
(-name "*" is redundant, as everything matches)

I'm still not sure what you're referring to by folders with block-sizes? 
Would the du command be helpful here?


Cheers,
Phil