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Q&A How to list the first x files in each directory

Is this what you want? Edit: Credit to Kamil Maciorowski‭ for catching an unsafe interpolation in the previous draft; it will work for non-adversarial inputs but this newer version is safer and a ...

posted 7mo ago by r~~‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by r~~‭

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#2: Post edited by user avatar r~~‭ · 2023-10-09T18:37:45Z (7 months ago)
  • Is this what you want?
  • ```
  • find l1 -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d \! -empty -exec sh -c "printf '%s
  • ' '{}'/* | head -n 3" \;
  • ```
  • Is this what you want?
  • **Edit:** Credit to Kamil Maciorowski‭ for catching an unsafe interpolation in the previous draft; it will work for non-adversarial inputs but this newer version is safer and a better example to learn from.
  • ```sh
  • find l1 -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 \
  • -type d \! -empty \
  • -exec sh -c 'printf "%s
  • " "$1"/* | head -n 3' _ {} \;
  • ```
#1: Initial revision by user avatar r~~‭ · 2023-10-02T18:36:32Z (7 months ago)
Is this what you want?

```
find l1 -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d \! -empty -exec sh -c "printf '%s\n' '{}'/* | head -n 3" \;
```