Find with two actions 4

[ddrillich]

Good Day,

I would like to run the find command and for each file found, I would like to run ls and cat.

I tried the following without much luck -
find . -name '*.data' -exec ls -ltr {}\; cat {} \;

Any ideas?

Regards,
Dan

 

[Annihilannic]

Just add another -exec before the cat?

Annihilannic
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[ddrillich]

Hi Annihilannic,

No luck with -

find . -name '*.data' -exec ls -ltr {}\; -exec cat {} \;

Regards,
Dan

 

[feherke]

Hi

find . -name '*.data' -exec ls -ltr {}[highlight] [/highlight]\; -exec cat {} \;

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[SamBones]

How about...

find . -name '*.data' [b]-ls[/b] -exec cat {} \;

 

[feherke]

Hi

Lol. So neat. Will have to reread [tt]man find[/tt].


Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[ddrillich]

Beautiful thing Sam! Sorry, but why does it work?

Regards,
Dan

 

[ddrillich]

I see, -ls is a distinct ACTION, exactly as -exec command ;

Regards,
Dan

 

[Annihilannic]

...but only with GNU find.

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[SamBones]

Anni, it works on my Solaris "find" which is not GNU.

 

[Annihilannic]

Ah, well.... must be a recent addition!

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[GeekyDeaks]

I have just given Feherke a star - his correction to the first suggestion works as expected. It's really easy to make a mistake and forget the space before the \; when using the find command.

 

[ddrillich]

Right, I missed it -- it works perfectly.

Regards,
Dan