Re: script within find

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On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Alexy Khrabrov wrote:

> A while ago I asked about generalization of the nested command in find 
> -exec.  What if I have to execute a random series of shell commands for 
> each file found by find and given to exec -- how should I package the 
> series under zsh?  I tried -exec (cmd1; cmd2; cmd3) and it seems not to 
> work -- find complains about ( and ) and loses ; ...  Is it a 
> shell-sensitive problem or find-specific?
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i'm sure there's other ways to do this, but i do something like this...

find /path -param | while read n
do
	cmd1 $n ; cmd2 $n
	cmd3 $n
done

as long as there aren't white spaces in the output of find, everything 
stays simple. off the top of my head, i think that white spaces can be 
handled by double-quoting references to $n.


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