help with find

[minus0]

Is it possible to execute two commands as part of a find command?

for ex:

find . -name "whatever" -mtime +1 -exec command1 {} destination -exec command2 {} ;
my intention is to find files satisfying the criteria, perform a command say copy the found files and then
perform a second command say removing the found files in one shot.
I know mv can be used instead of cp and then rm but those were just examples of two commands

thanks for any suggestions

 

[iribach]

for file in `find ....`
do cmd1 ; cmd2
done

 

[olded]

Minus0:

Another common technique is to pipe the output of the find command to a where clause and work on each object found:

find . -print|while read object
do
echo $object
done

Regards,


Ed

 

[olded]

I meant to say while clause. Sorry!

 

[minus0]

Iribach,

thanks for the tip, but if i wish to do something like
archive,zip and then remove the original files then do you think a

for file in `find ....`
do cmd1 ; cmd2
done

would be ideal? I was thinking of
find . -name "Xfiles" -exec tar cvf newfile.tar gzip newfile.tar rm Xfiles

Olded, can you give me the syntax to do what you suggested to suit my need?

Thanks a bunch for your help

 

[olded]

Minus0;

The examples Iribach and I presented actually are good if you want to perform an operation one object at a time. That won't work with an archive.

I think you're trying to do too much with one find command - especially when performing something like tar. All the file objects have to be gathered before executing tar; tar has to complete before compressing the tar file, etc. I'd find all your objects and place them in a temp file (or a named pipe if you want to get fancy):

PIPE=/tmp/pfifo.$$
trap "rm -f $PIPE" 0

# all on one line
find . -name "xfile*" -print >> $PIPE ; tar cvf /tmp/tar.eds $(cat $PIPE); cat $PIPE|xargs rm

and then perform whatever operations you want to.

Regards,

Ed

 

[minus0]

Ed,

I started playing around with shell scripting a few days ago and have no clue about trap etc, but this is what I came up with, with your help of course

put the commands below in a script file

find . -name "XFiles*" -mtime -1 > TEMP.out
tar cvf MODTMP1.tar $(cat TEMP.out); gzip MODTMP1.tar; cat TEMP.out|xargs rm;

It does do what I wanted.

Again thanks a bunch for your help

Regds
Nask