Re: find printing full paths

2006-06-15 Thread The Wanderer
(I'm not entirely certain this still belongs on both lists... but I'm also not sure that it doesn't.) Bob Proulx wrote: The Wanderer wrote: What I was doing at the time, so far as I remember, was: for i in `ls path/to/directory1/ path/to/directory2/` ; do ls -l $i && $i ; done but that d

Re: find printing full paths

2006-06-15 Thread Bob Proulx
The Wanderer wrote: > What I was doing at the time, so far as I remember, was: > > for i in `ls path/to/directory1/ path/to/directory2/` ; do ls -l $i && > $i ; done > > but that didn't work because the filename printed by the subshell did > not exist in the present directory. Would this have

Re: find printing full paths

2006-06-15 Thread The Wanderer
Bob Proulx wrote: The Wanderer wrote: For the little it's worth, I also find myself wanting to do something like this from time to time, usually in a context in which find is not a satisfactory alternative - or, at best, in which it would be awkward and potentially difficult to construct a fin

find printing full paths (was: filutils 4.1)

2006-06-15 Thread Bob Proulx
James Youngman wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >For the little it's worth, I also find myself wanting to do something > >like this from time to time, usually in a context in which find is not a > >satisfactory alternative - or, at best, in which it would be awkward and > >potentially difficult to co