Linux – Print full path of files and sizes with find in Linux

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Here are the specs: Find all files in / modified after the modification time of /tmp/test, exclude /proc and /sys from the search, and print the full path of the file along with human readable size. Here is what I have so far:

find / \( -path /proc -o -path /sys \) -prune -o -newer /tmp/test -exec ls -lh {} \; | less

The issue is that the full path doesn't get printed. Unfortunately, ls doesn't support printing the full path! And all solutions I have found that show how to print the full path suggest using find. 😐

Any ideas? Thanks!

Best Answer

Instead of -exec ls -lh {} \; you can also use the printf option:

find / \( -path /proc -o -path /sys \) -prune -o -newer /tmp/test -printf "%s %p\n" | less

Although that will just print the size in bytes and not in the nice human-readable format ls supports.

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And another way to do it if your find doesn't support printf

find . -type f | xargs ls -al  | awk -v pwd="$PWD" '{ print $(NF-2), $(NF-1) , pwd substr($(NF), 2)}'

Note: This only works as long as there aren't any spaces in the filenames. Output looks like this:

2010-09-29 22:08 /home/nifle/ac.txt
2010-10-04 16:02 /home/nifle/array.sh
2010-10-05 23:32 /home/nifle/b.txt
2010-12-15 16:49 /home/nifle/barcopy/subbar/ghut
2010-12-15 16:48 /home/nifle/bardir/subbar/ghut
2010-09-29 22:16 /home/nifle/foo.gz
2010-09-29 22:16 /home/nifle/foo1.gz

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Rather than ls or find you may try tree. Specifically tree -ifpugDs $PWD should give you what you would like.

-if removes indentation lines and prints out path

-p prints permissions

-ug prints user and group

-D prints modification time

-s prints size

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