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Asked: 2026-06-13T16:40:27+00:00

find . -iname ‘*.rar’ -execdir ls {} + this will not work under OSX

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find . -iname '*.rar' -execdir ls {} +

this will not work under OSX Lion, yielding ls: blabla.rar: No such file or directory etc..

Additionally, above will work under Linux. However, it will invoke ls as many times as it find result. Tested with simple cat $# script.

So I see 2 problems with -execdir

  • under Linux it will NOT combine search result as stated in manual when using {} +
  • under OSX it will NOT change directory as stated in manual, again using {} +

Wanted to confirm that this is buggy and not my misunderstanding.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t know about Mountain Lion, but it’s a known bug in GNU findutils, apparently fixed in the 4.5 branch (check your find --version). See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?19593

    There is also this bug: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29949 in find version 4.5.9, which matches the Mountain Lion symptom. Perhaps you should check both version numbers.

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