Re: find usage question

[Eric Blake]

On 3/19/19 10:56 AM, Budi wrote:
> How to instruct 'find' to perform -exec with its argument is from
> -printf, not from the default find output.
> tried so far in vain:
> find ~+ -type d -printf '%p /d/data/%p_%s\n' -exec cp \{\} \

You can't. But what you can do is:

find ... -printf 'cp %p /d/data/%p_%s\n' | xargs -L1

where you instruct the -printf form to output the entire command you
want executed (rather than trying to piece together the command with
-exec), and instead have xargs execute it.


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