Unix Commands - Find help

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I'm trying to learn UNIX commands and I'm playing this game to learn and I'm really stuck at the moment. I'm in a server through ssh and the directory is full of random files and folders and the password for the next level is inside one of the files. I have been told that the file has the following attributes:

human-readable 1033 bytes non-executable

I am guessing that I should use the 'find' command and I tried " find ! -executable " but that returned a load of files. The only human-readable help I can find in the manual or online is printing out the file sizes in human readable. So I'm a bit lost there?

Also I did try " find ~ -size 1033b " but that returned nothing. But when I tried " find ~ -size -1033b " it returned every file in the directory.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Accepted Answer

0	The find command that you want is: `find ~ -size 1033c` From the man page for find: b: for 512-byte blocks (this is the default if no suffix is used) c: for bytes link answered 20 Sep '12, 10:54 jeremy ♦♦ 1.0k●1●5●16 accept rate: 37% edited 20 Sep '12, 10:55

Answer 2

0	If there's only 1 file of 1033 bytes you could do a " ls -l \| grep 1033 " to get the file name. link answered 19 Sep '12, 11:55 hamlindsza 11●1 accept rate: 0%

Answer 3

0	-1033b is not correct. -size 1033 is correct Sorry. link answered 24 Sep '12, 17:35 vectrum 11●3 accept rate: 0% edited 25 Sep '12, 14:29

Answer 4

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And also, i think that "human readable" means that the contents of the file should be human readable, so it's not a bynary file. You can check that with file, doing:

-exex file {} \;

in you find command, or with

-type

also in your find command.

Hope it helps ;) (BTW, tell us the name of the game please :D)

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answered 16 Mar '13, 10:12

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Answer 5

It's Over the wire! and using -exec file {} ; helps as it lists out data from ascii text which the point is to find which of these files is human readable. thanks!

    @melinda:~/inhere$ find -exec file {} \;
.: directory 
./-file08: data
./-file05: data
./-file07: ASCII text
./-file04: data
./-file00: data
./-file01: data
./-file06: data
./-file03: data
./-file09: data
./-file02: data

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