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Andrew
Asked: 2010-10-08 21:32:22 +0800 CST

Multiple command executions from find

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Most people are familiar with using find to run the same command on a number of files, e.g.:

find -type f | xargs command

or

find -type f -exec command {} \;

My question is whether it's possible to run multiple commands from find:

find [path] [expression] -exec command1 {} -exec command2 {} \;

so that the output would look like

command1: file1
command2: file1
command1: file2
command2: file2
command1: file3
command2: file3
command1: file4
command2: file4

Obviously I can write a simple shell script wrapper for this, but is it possible to do it all from the command line (perhaps using awk, tee etc.)?

bash find

2 Answers

  1. You could do something simple like this.

    find . -exec bash -c 'echo {} ; echo {} ' \;
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  2. Best Answer

    Or

    find . -exec echo {} \; -exec echo {} \;
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