Sep 1, 2017 · Each -exec also acts like a "test" on the pathnames found by find, just like -type and -name does. If the command returns a zero exit status (signifying "success"), the next part of the find …

The first answer of Denis is the answer to resolve the trouble. But in fact it is no more a find with several commands in only one -exec like the title suggests. To answer the one -exec with several commands …

Dec 1, 2010 · To provide additions and clarifications to some of the other answers, if you are using the bulk option for exec or execdir (-exec command {} +), and want to retrieve all the positional …

Feb 18, 2015 · find -name 'file_*' -follow -type f -exec zcat {} \; | agrep -dEOE 'grep' In terms of efficiency this results costs one invocation of find, numerous invocations of zcat, and one invocation of agrep. …

10 You need to use cp -t /home/shantanu/tosend in order to tell it that the argument is the target directory and not a source. You can then change it to -exec ... + in order to get cp to copy as many …

find /usr/local/share/ -iname "useless" -exec rm -r {} \; In brief, the -exec gives you a bit more control over the actual command that removes the found item. The advantage is that you use one tool to find …

Oct 31, 2023 · I'd like to find the files in the current directory that contain the text "chrome". $ find . -exec grep chrome find: missing argument to `-exec' What am I doing wrong?

Apr 25, 2014 · Using -exec with a semicolon (find . -exec ls '{}' \;), will execute ls file1 ls file2 ls file3 But if you use a plus sign instead (find . -exec ls '{}' \+), as many filenames as possible are passed as …

Jun 28, 2013 · I have a list of certain files that I see using the command below, but how can I copy those files listed into another folder, say ~/test? find . -mtime 1 -exec du -hc {} +

Mar 13, 2014 · Sounds like you are not on Linux after all then, as this has been supported by the GNU versions of these tools for a long time. I can't find (sic) a find which doesn't support -exec in some …