Want to run a command per file from the output of "find" command

kuldeep.k · 09-08-2010, 05:09 AM

I want to scan a particular directory recursively and run a particular command with each file as input. For this I am using "find /dir/path".
I dont want to write any long script containing loop on the output of "find". I want a single command which will allow me to run a command on each file of the "find" command output.

Thank you .

repo · 09-08-2010, 05:13 AM

Hi,

You can use

Code:

find / -name foo -exec /bin/rm {} \;

Kind regards

lurker79 · 09-08-2010, 05:14 AM

find has a -exec option which allows you to run commands on the files matching the pattern you have given find e.g. to run "ls -l" on those files you could run something like

find / -name "foo*" -exec ls -l {} \;

to get it to prompt to run the command you can use -ok

quanta · 09-08-2010, 05:20 AM

Another option is | xargs. Try to distinguish between -exec and xargs.