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How to pipe a file to find command?
I want to Find wether a file named name is there or not without using dir/s subhang.txt. can you tell me how to do it using pipes and how to connect two C programs using Pipes doesn’t work because the output of dir/s goes into the file search.txt.
Is it possible to pipe the results of find?
You can pipe, of course, xargs is done for these cases: The -exec is good because it provides more control of exactly what you are executing. Whenever you pipe there may be problems with corner cases: file names containing spaces or new lines, etc. how do I know when to use that (exec) over pipe | ?
How to pipe the results of’find’to MV in Linux?
How do I pipe the results of a ‘find’ (in Linux) to be moved to a different directory? This is what I have so far. but its not yet right (I get an error missing file argument, because I didn’t specify a file, because I was trying to get it from the pipe) xargs is commonly used for this, and mv on Linux has a -t option to facilitate that.
How to use batch file-pipe to find Stack Overflow?
The command line output for this is (the contents of %1 was “messages\\Message.js”): The issue I am having is that the only way I can get this to work is with the exact line: echo %1 | find “js”. How can I do this without echoing the file path each time?
Can you use pipe in-EXEC on find?
Unfortunately, -exec on find doesn’t allow to use pipe or even \\| because the shell interprets that character first. Alternatively you could try to embed your exec statement inside a sh script and then do:
Which is the best command to find a file?
(For example, by moving the grep outside the -exec or piping the results of find to xargs as suggested by Palmin .) Using find command for this type of a task is maybe not the best alternative. I use the following command frequently to find files that contain the requested information: