2008-03-13, 18:39(+01), pk:
> Jeenu wrote:
[...]
>> I'm just wondering whether there is a way of executing multiple shell
>> commands with find's -exec switch? If either of ";", "&&" or "|" is
>> used in between commands, then shell will interpret it as two separate
>> shell commands and some times fail. I can't even use \; since find
>> interprets it as the end of it's arguments. Any other go, than putting
>> all commands into a script?
[...]
> $ find -exec sh -c "wc -l '{}'; head -n 2 '{}' && tail -n 2 '{}'" \;
[...]

That's non-standard and dangerous. Standardly, you can only
expect {} to be expanded to the filename if it consistutes an
argument of find by itself.

find ... -exec ... {} \; # OK
find ... -exec ... x{} \; # NOK

find ... -exec sh -c '... "x$1"' {} {} \; # OK

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Stéphane