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How to include a pipe in Linux find-exec command?
In your example you can either choose to use your top level shell to perform the piping like so: In terms of efficiency this results costs one invocation of find, numerous invocations of zcat, and one invocation of agrep.
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.
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 | ?
Can you use the pipe symbol in find?
Can this be done in find? Or do I need to xargs? The job of interpreting the pipe symbol as an instruction to run multiple processes and pipe the output of one process into the input of another process is the responsibility of the shell (/bin/sh or equivalent).
How to pipe list of files returned by find command?
The -i argument to xargs allows you to insert the filename where required in the cat command line. The brackets are replaced by the filename piped into the cat command from find. Use ggrep. This will print the name and contents of files-only recursively..
How is the output of find piped to xargs?
The output of find is piped to the standard input of xargs. The xargs program reads its standard input, splitting the input at white space (blanks, newlines, tabs, etc) and appends a number of the words to the command grep something and executes the command line.