From bash I need to execute 2 commands on specific files recursively. I am trying to print the filename and meta information at the same time. I need to combine the following 2 commands so first a filename is printed, then the metadata for that file is printed, and then repeat for the next file.

I print the file name with:

find . -wholename '*word/test.wsp -exec echo {} \;

And I print the meta-data with:

find . -wholename ‘*word/test\.wsp’ -exec whisper-info {} \;

However, the second command does not print the filename, so I am unsure which files the meta-data belongs to.

How can I execute the 2 commands simutaneously?

I've tried: find . -wholename '*word/test.wsp -exec echo {} && whisper-info {} \; find . -wholename '*word/test.wsp -exec echo && whisper-info {} \; find . -wholename '*word/test.wsp -exec echo {} && -exec whisper-info {} \; find . -wholename '*word/test.wsp -exec echo {} \; && whisper-info {} \; find . -wholename '*word/test.wsp -exec echo {} \; && -exec whisper-info {} \;

And a lot of other combinations.

CodePudding user response：

Just put two -execs.

find . -wholename '*word/test.wsp' -exec echo {} \; -exec whisper-info {} \;

If you have GNU find, perhaps prefer its built-in printf rather than an external echo.

You also consistently seem to have misplaced the closing quote. The string with the wildcard needr to be quoted or escaped to prevent the shell from expanding the wildcard before find runs.

CodePudding user response：

-exec require a single command, but that command can be a shell that executes an arbitrary script consisting of your two commands.

find . -wholename '*word/test.wsp' -exec sh -c 'echo "$1"; whisper-info "$1"' _ {} \;

A few notes:

• {} is not embedded in the command. Let the command be a static script that accepts an argument, instead.
• _ is a dummy value used to set $0 in the shell.

You can avoid spawning quite so many shells by including a loop in the shell to iterate over multiple arguments provided by find -exec ...

find . -wholename '*word/test.wsp' -exec sh -c 'for f; do echo "$f"; whisper-info "$f"; done' _ {}  

for f; do ...; done is short for for f in "$@"; do ...; done.