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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 example of an exec command?
40 most used examples of find command in Linux or Unix Find exec example 1: Collect md5sum In this find exec example find all files under /tmp and collect md5sum for each file
Is there a way to pipe from Exec to SH?
Using the shell option extquote you can do something similar to this in order to make find exec stuff and then pipe it to sh. I just figured I’d add that because at least the way i visualized it, it was closer to the OP’s original question of using pipes within exec.
What’s the difference between find Exec and fix exec?
Find is a very helpful utility for every system admin for day to day tasks but you can also combine find exec multiple commands to filter and execute certain tasks. For example: find exec grep a pattern and print only patching files, use find exec with pipe, combine fix exec with sed or awk in Linux or Unix.
Why is runtime.exec ( string ) not executed in a shell?
This happens because the command passed to Runtime.exec(String) is not executed in a shell. The shell performs a lot of common support services for programs, and when the shell is not around to do them, the command will fail.
Why does ls-l not show up in Exec ( )?
So when I run my shell and I enter the command ls -l | wc -l (for example) the result from the execs doesn’t show up but the shell keeps running normally. The strange thing is that the result of the command shows only when I terminate my shell with “exit” or “^C”. What is wrong with that output?
How to use Shell pipeline as find’s-exec argument?
Needless process instantiation is expensive if done hundreds or thousands of times. To use a pipe with a find -exec argument, you need to invoke the shell. A contrived example could be to grep for the string “one” but only if the string “two” isn’t present too. This could be done as:
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..