Solution: find -exec

[Ulisses Alonso <ulisses@pusa.eleinf.uv.es>]

Hi all!

I reply myself here

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote:

> Ulisses Alonso wrote:
>   >
>   >Hi all
>   >
>   >I would like to know if there is a way to make something like this
>   >
>   >find <some path> -exec command1 {} | command2 \; 
>  
> I take it you want to run the pipeline `command1 | command2' on each file.
> 
> I don't think you can do this with find's own command line; the easiest way
> is probably to write a little script and execute that instead:
[...]
> find <some path> -exec myscript {} \;

I found a better way:

find <some path> -exec bash -c "myfirstcommand {} | mysecondcommand | [...] \;

Note that the use of find's {} is correct here

Regards,

		Ulisses

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