-exec?

[vorrin]

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

Hello Wassy, no unfortunately that won't work, at least here on my ubuntu this happens:

find . -name "*.mp3" -exec ls {} \&\& ls {} \;
./stuff/test.mp3 ./stuff/test.mp3
ls: &&: No such file or directory
ls: ls: No such file or directory

and same especially with "|".

Anyone knows how to solve this? I actually would like to be able to do an exiftool of some files, and directly save a log of its result in the same folder, but using | and tee will result as the example above, and using ">" will save in the folder I'm running find in.

Any help welcome!

Vorrin Tal

[anomie]

Example using multiple -exec directives:

find . -name '*.doc' -exec file {} \; -exec ls -l {} \;

[vorrin]

Thanks anomie!

That's already a step forward, but it still won't log the output of the previous command... basically what I would need is for this to work:

find . -name '*.doc' -exec file {} \| tee test.log  \;

[Franklin52]

A sample how to use the file command for the found files and write the output of the found files to your logfile:

file $(find . -name '*.doc' | tee test.log)

Regards