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Exam EX200 topic 1 question 79 discussion

Actual exam question from RedHat's EX200

Question #: 79
Topic #: 1

[All EX200 Questions]

SIMULATION -
1. Find all sizes of 10k file or directory under the /etc directory, and copy to /tmp/findfiles directory.
2. Find all the files or directories with Lucy as the owner, and copy to /tmp/findfiles directory.

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Suggested Answer: See explanation below.
(1)find /etc -size 10k -exec cp {} /tmp/findfiles \;
(2)find / -user lucy -exec cp -a {} /tmp/findfiles \;
Note: If find users and permissions, you need to use cp - a options, to keep file permissions and user attributes etc.

by STFN2019 at Sept. 23, 2021, 6:54 p.m.

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jjknow85

Highly Voted 2 years, 5 months ago

#mkdir /tmp/findfiles # find /etc -size 10k -exec cp -r {} /tmp/findfiles \; # find / -user lucy -exec cp -r {} /tmp/findfiles \;

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Frenzy

Most Recent 1 year, 11 months ago

mkdir /tmp/findfiles cp $(find /etc -size 10k) /tmp/findfiles/ cp $(find / -user lucy) /tmp/findfiles/

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mattd81

1 year, 12 months ago

How would you check to see what is in the directory to verify your search?

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STFN2019

2 years, 7 months ago

Why not just use the following: find /etc -size 10k > /tmp/findfiles find / -user lucy >> /tmp/findfiles

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atilade

2 years, 7 months ago

/tmp/findfiles is a directory. You can only append to files

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reemartan

2 years, 6 months ago

This is just redirecting your command output to a file, but not copying the files to a directory

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