Listing full file names with the exact length of 3 characters

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This is what I have to do:

Display the full file name (including the full path) and file size of all files whose name (excluding the path) is exactly 3 characters long.

This is the code I have:

find / -printf "Name: %f Path: %h Size: %s (bytes)\n" 2>/dev/null | grep -E "Name: .{3,} Path" | sed "s/Name: .* Path/Path/"

However, this gives me file names with at least 3 characters. I'm not sure how to specify exact file name length.

I'm using bash, if that helps/matters.

2

Try this with find:

find / -name "??"

Regards

3

That didn't seem to work. I'm not sure how that would give me files with a file name exactly 3 characters long.

4

Sorry, I forgot one "?", it should find file names with 3 characters:

find / -name "???"

Regards

5

this will also print the files with exact three char long

ls|awk 'length($0)==3{print $0}'
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> find . -name "???" -print -exec ls -l {} \;

Now, this will give two output lines for each 'matching' entry.
Using awk or other tools can probably help you the rest of the way.

7

Thank you all very much! I think I got it figured out.

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find / -name "???" -ls