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Asked: 2026-06-13T19:11:55+00:00

I running a find command which output is similar to a ls -l, I

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I running a find command which output is similar to a ls -l, I need to insert a new line but it’s not working

find $dir_name -size $sizeFile -printf '%M %n %u %g %s %Tb %Td %Tk:%TM %p\n'

the output that I’m getting is like this:

-rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 26615 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir1/vimtutor -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 25557 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir1/cdlist -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 135838 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir1/.phones -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 26615 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir1/testdir1/vimtutor -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 26615 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir1/testdir1/subdir1/vimtutor -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 135838 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir1/testdir1/subdir1/phones -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 25557 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir1/testdir1/subdir1/cdlist -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 20558 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir1/testdir1/subdir1/sample.txt -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 135838 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir1/testdir1/phones -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 25557 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir1/testdir1/cdlist -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 20558 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir1/testdir1/sample.txt -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 20558 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir1/sample.txt -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 26615 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir2/vimtutor -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 25557 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir2/cdlist -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 26615 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir2/testdir2/vimtutor -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 135838 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir2/testdir2/phones -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 25557 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir2/testdir2/cdlist -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 26615 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir2/testdir2/subdir2/vimtutor -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 135838 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir2/testdir2/subdir2/phones -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 25557 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir2/testdir2/subdir2/cdlist -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 20558 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir2/testdir2/subdir2/sample.txt -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 20558 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir2/testdir2/sample.txt -rwx------ 1 juanpa juanpa 20558 Nov 04 20:47 ./sample.dir2/sample.txt

does any one know what I’m missing or doing wrong???

thanks in advace for any help

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try double quotes instead of single quotes:

    find $dir_name -size $sizeFile -printf "%M %n %u %g %s %Tb %Td %Tk:%TM %p\n"

    (Edit: actually I just tried both double quotes and single quotes on my system, and both are correctly outputting files on separate lines)

    Are you saving the output to a variable?

    If you are doing something like this: 

    files=$(find $dir_name -size $sizeFile -printf '%M %n %u %g %s %Tb %Td %Tk:%TM %p\n')
echo $files

    Then make sure you are enclosing $files in double quotes when you are using it:

    echo "$files"
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