On 2/23/11 10:54 PM, neubyr wrote: > Howdy, > > I am getting some errors with find and ls command - such that find is > able to see a file whereas ls says the file doesn't exist. Initially I > was trying find and ls together as: > # find ./ -type f -mtime +15 | xargs ls > > Similar behavior is seen even when I execute both commands separately. > Any thoughts on what might be wrong here? Can you give an example of a path that find returns and the output of ls -l 'that_path_in_quotes' My first guess is that you have shell metacharacters (like spaces) in the file or directory names that the shell parses/expands if you don't quote them. Using the GNU --print0 extension to find and the matching -0 option to xargs might fix it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com