CentOS - Apr 2010 - Strange 'find' misbehaviour

Hi,

I just found out something strange. Try it out for yourselves. Here 
goes. Search for any directories under /boot:

# find /boot/ -type d
/boot/
/boot/grub
/boot/lost+found

So far so good. Now execute a detailed listing on the results:

# find /boot/ -type d -exec ls -l \{} \;
total 6203
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   68663 sep  3  2009 config-2.6.18-164.el5
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    1024 avr  6 10:40 grub
-rw------- 1 root root 3228842 avr  6 10:30 initrd-2.6.18-164.el5.img
drwx------ 2 root root   12288 avr  6 10:19 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   80032 mar 12  2009 message
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  107405 sep  3  2009 symvers-2.6.18-164.el5.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  954947 sep  3  2009 System.map-2.6.18-164.el5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1855924 sep  3  2009 vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.el5
total 257
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     63 avr  6 10:40 device.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7584 avr  6 10:40 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7456 avr  6 10:40 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6720 avr  6 10:40 ffs_stage1_5
-rw------- 1 root root    655 avr  6 10:40 grub.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6720 avr  6 10:40 iso9660_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8192 avr  6 10:40 jfs_stage1_5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     11 avr  6 10:40 menu.lst -> ./grub.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6880 avr  6 10:40 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   9248 avr  6 10:40 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  55808 mar 12  2009 splash.xpm.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    512 avr  6 10:40 stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104988 avr  6 10:40 stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7072 avr  6 10:40 ufs2_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6272 avr  6 10:40 vstafs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8904 avr  6 10:40 xfs_stage1_5
total 0

Why does 'find' suddenly list everything... and not just the
directories?

I'm puzzled.

Niki

> I just found out something strange. Try it out for yourselves. Here
> goes. Search for any directories under /boot:
>
> # find /boot/ -type d
> /boot/
> /boot/grub
> /boot/lost+found
>
> So far so good. Now execute a detailed listing on the results:
>
> # find /boot/ -type d -exec ls -l \{} \;
>
> ...
>
> Why does 'find' suddenly list everything... and not just the
directories?
Nothing strange here. What do you expect from
  # ls -l /boot/
Right, you'll see the contents of the directory /boot.

You might be looking for
  # find /boot/ -type d -exec ls -ld {} \;

Chris