multiple -execs using find command

[samf]

I'm starting to master the learning curve on Linux, it's a good thing. But there are two things that I want to learn:

1. with find you can do this:

find -name|criteria something -exec do_something;

but how would you do multiple operations in that same search pass? Specifically I want to execute chown, chgrp, chmod and perhaps touch.

And, it's important that I do each of the operations on the file while in the search path because the changes made will involve the criteria I'm searching by; they wouldn't be found again on a second find.

2. Any good tutorials on creating a batch file? Once things work I don't want to have to retype them

Thank you,
Sam Fullman
Compass Point Media

[andutt]

Something like this

find / -name "*.tar" | xargs chown root:root

But for that i should do a little program, like this.

#!/bin/sh

MYTARFILES=`find / -name "*.tar"`

for i in $MYTARFILES
     do
     echo "Beginning with file $i"
     echo "Chmodding $i 770"
     chmod 770 $i

if [ $? = 0 ]
    then
    echo "Chmod went good"
else
    echo "Chmod went BAD"
    exit 1
fi

     echo "Chowning $i root:root"
     chown root:root $i
if [ $? = 0 ]
    then
    echo "Chown went good"
else
    echo "Chown went BAD"
    exit 1
fi

done

Copy that into a file and perform chmod 755 on it to make it executeble.

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[slant6]

BTW, command line scripts are not called batch files like in DOS. In Linux they are called shell scripts and they can be much more powerful than batch files.

The syntax depends on which shell you are using at the command line terminal. Most likely you are using the bash shell. There are a variety of how-to's and documentation on the web for bash scripting. Try the tldp.org site and specifically, http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...tro-HOWTO.html

[samf]

I appreciate the resources and will look. But the original question was, can you run multiple -exec commands on a find command, and if so how.

Thanks again,
Sam Fullman

[wassy121]

you can run -exec with multiple commands, but not multiple -exec flags. For instance:
find . -name "*.txt" -exec ls {} \&\& ls {} \;