Why can't I pipe the output of find command to to ls?
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Cant pipe output of find to ls, why?
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According to the man page of
ls(1).The ls command takes its arguments on the command line not on standard input (i. e. file descriptor 0).Cordially,
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You can use the xargs command to pipe the output of find to ls. with xargs you can execute a command with input from standard input.
Ex:
find /home -name Downloads | xargs ls -l
