On 2013-10-18, at 14:53, Strake wrote: >> I'm not interested in disk usage, but finding files based on certain >> properties, such as update time, ownership, permissions, etc. > > du -a | cut -f 2
Yes, but how do you filter the result on some combination of file attributes? du -a | cut -f2 | xargs ls -dl | grep <awful pattern> | sed 's/.*:[0-9]* //' ? And then you would have a hard time specifying pattern for "newer than 5 days". If you want to do it this way around, a command is missing for filtering a list of file names, as already mentioned by Raphaël. It could be generalised to a command for filtering stdin by calling a predicate command, e.g: du -a | cut -f2 | filter test -w For this, test is missing "newer than 5 days" since that's what find does. -Truls
