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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Compound command with 'find' utility? Post 85340 by deckard on Tuesday 4th of October 2005 04:05:54 PM
Old 10-04-2005
More Info About My Case...

Well... I think I should have stated that the example I posted was an example of a type of use for -exec. But it's not the use I am wanting.

I have a need to use 'find' to locate some files. Once those files are found one at a time, I need each to be processed with a long compound command line or possibly multiple commands to write some metadata into the file using variables.

Closer example to reality:

find . -name "*.fil" -exec metafiler -t METADATA1="First Tag" {} -exec metafiler -t METADATA2="Second Tag" {} -exec metfiler -t METADATA3="Third Tag" {} \;

Does that make more sense?
 

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Agent::Tag::String(3pm) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   Agent::Tag::String(3pm)

NAME
Log::Agent::Tag::String - a constant tag string SYNOPSIS
require Log::Agent::Tag::String; # Inherits from Log::Agent::Tag. my $tag = Log::Agent::Tag::String->make( -name => "session id", -value => $session, -postfix => 1, -separator => " -- ", ); DESCRIPTION
This class represents a constant tag string. CREATION ROUTINE PARAMETERS
The following parameters are defined, in alphabetical order: "-name" => name The name of this tag. Currently unused. "-postfix" => flag Whether tag should be placed after or before the log message. By default, it is prepended to the log message, i.e. this parameter is false. "-separator" => string The separation string between the tag and the log message. A single space by default. "-value" => string The tag's value. AUTHOR
Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com> SEE ALSO
Log::Agent::Tag(3), Log::Agent::Message(3). perl v5.10.0 2002-03-09 Agent::Tag::String(3pm)
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