Can you pipe ... wth?

Howard Owen hbo at egbok.com
Thu Jun 6 17:33:02 EDT 2002


--On Thursday, June 06, 2002 02:14:14 PM -0700 "Paul M. Lambert" 
<plambert at plambert.net> wrote:

> sudo find /usr/local -type f -exec ls -ld {} \; | sudo awk '{sum+=$5} END
> {print sum}'

Why do you need the second sudo? Awk doesn't need privilege in the example
given.

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