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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Chaining together exec within find Post 302999612 by MadeInGermany on Friday 23rd of June 2017 09:04:36 AM
Old 06-23-2017
@Don, the -exec requires to set the argv[0] for a script interpreter like bash.
This is certainly true for all LUnix - otherwise process names would always be the script interpreter (e.g. bash).
For demonstration:
Code:
$ 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
$

In the first case the process name became newdir/file1.
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