Shell Programming and Scripting

find /directory/toscan -type f -exec bash -c '
ls -ltar "$@"
tar -rvf /directory/foroutput/archive.tar "$@"
rm "$@"
' bash {} +

find /directory/toscan -type f -exec bash -c '
ls -ltr "$@" &&
tar -rvf /directory/foroutput/archive.tar "$@" &&
rm "$@"
' {} +

find /directory/toscan -type f -exec bash -c '
for path in "$@"
do	ls -ltr "$path" &&
	tar -rvf /directory/foroutput/archive.tar "$path" &&
	rm "$path"
done
' {} +

find /directory/toscan -type f -exec ls -ltr {} \; -exec tar -rvf /directory/foroutput/archive.tar {} \; -exec rm "$@" {} \;

#!/bin/bash
function process_one_file ()
{
  ls -l $@ &&
  tar -tvf /directory/foroutput/archive.tar "$path" &&
  rm "$path"
}

find /directory/toscan -type f | xargs process_one_file

$ mkdir newdir
$ touch newdir/file{1,2,3}
$ find newdir -type f -exec bash -c '
echo "$@"
' {} +
 newdir/file2 newdir/file3
$ find newdir -type f -exec bash -c '
echo "$@"
' bash {} +
newdir/file1 newdir/file2 newdir/file3
$

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Utility functions: print-as-echo, print-line-with-visual-space, debug.
# export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
LC_ALL=C ; LANG=C ; export LC_ALL LANG
pe() { for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done; printf "\n"; }
pl() { pe;pe "-----" ;pe "$*"; }
em() { pe "$*" >&2 ; }
db() { ( printf " db, ";for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done;printf "\n" ) >&2 ; }
db() { : ; }
C=$HOME/bin/context && [ -f $C ] && $C xargs parallel

p() { echo " Hi from function p, argument :$1:." ; }

pl " Running function p:"
p

pl " Running function p from xargs:"
echo a | xargs -t p 

pl " Running function p from parallel:"
echo a | parallel p

pl " Exporting function p:"
export -f p
export -pf

pl " Running function p exported from xargs:"
echo b | xargs -t p 

pl " Running function p exported from parallel:"
echo c | parallel p

exit $?

$ ./z4

Environment: LC_ALL = C, LANG = C
(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 3.16.0-4-amd64, x86_64
Distribution        : Debian 8.7 (jessie) 
bash GNU bash 4.3.30
xargs (GNU findutils) 4.4.2
parallel GNU parallel 20130922

-----
 Running function p:
 Hi from function p, argument ::.

-----
 Running function p from xargs:
p a 
Unquoted string "a" may clash with future reserved word at -e line 15.
Useless use of a constant ("a") in void context at -e line 15.

-----
 Running function p from parallel:
Unquoted string "a" may clash with future reserved word at -e line 15.
Useless use of a constant ("a") in void context at -e line 15.

-----
 Exporting function p:
p () 
{ 
    echo " Hi from function p, argument :$1:."
}
declare -fx p

-----
 Running function p exported from xargs:
p b 
Unquoted string "b" may clash with future reserved word at -e line 15.
Useless use of a constant ("b") in void context at -e line 15.

-----
 Running function p exported from parallel:
 Hi from function p, argument :c:.