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Old 06-25-2009
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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One way:

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
# myscript.sh
filename=$(basename "$1")
[[ ${#filename} -gt 20 ]] && echo "$1"


Code:
find /directory -type f -exec /path/to/myscript.sh {} \;

An external script works as an argument to -exec