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at January 11, 2011 10:57 by tm
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# Most any solutions use a .... | wc -l, which is wrong. It breaks (at least) if
# files contain newlines. Thus the right way to do it is:
find [find expression] -exec printf '.' \; | wc -c
(or, more efficiently)
find [find expression] -exec printf %.s. {} + | wc -c
# e.g. to find all jpg-files which are larger than 1kB, you can use:
find . -type f -name \*.jpg -size +1024c -exec printf '.' \; | wc -c
# the "weird" -size argument is POSIX compliant. On a GNU system you could use
# "-size +1k"
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at January 18, 2010 23:24 by tm
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# Most any solutions use a .... | wc -l, which is wrong. It breaks (at least) if # files contain newlines. Thus the right way to do it is: find [find expression] -exec printf '.' \; | wc -c # e.g. to find all jpg-files which are larger than 1kB, you can use: find . -type f -name \*.jpg -size +1024c -exec printf '.' \; | wc -c # the "weird" -size argument is POSIX compliant. On a GNU system you could use # "-size +1k"
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