[H-GEN] bash command-line question [was: Re: ...self executing tar.gz's?]

[Clinton Roy]

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Tony Nugent <tony at linuxworks.com.au> writes:

> An example of what I'm trying to do:
> 
>  $ find . -type f -name \*.txt -exec command1 {} ; command2 {} | filter_prog \;
> 
> That is, get find's -exec to run a *sequence* of commands on each
> filename it groks.  It fails to work.  I can produce what I want if
> I create a small shell script and use it thus:

My pre-caffeine response is:

find . -type f -name \*.txt -exec sh -c 'command {} ; command2 {} | filter_prog' \;

hth,
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Clinton Roy

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