Re: An appropriate directory search tool?
Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 10/20/2018 05:23 AM, Étienne Mollier wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> My take away from answers so far is "A script will be required."
>>
>> Not necessarily, the trouble is: "find" is so vast, you can
>> spend hours in the manual to search for adequate option for
>> your specific need, and end up writing a script, instead of
>> having found "the proper option".
>
> I don't think "find" itself is the problem.
> Debian seems to do some 'black magic' to conflate "standard output" and
> "standard input". Otherwise a pipe command would be required between
> "find" and "grep".
No it doesn't. find has functionality built in to pass results onward
(-exec or -xargs)
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