When launching a find -exec I get a list of results, separated by colons. Is there a way to turn those colons into some kind of "columns" separators (preferably a list of spaces)?

Turn:

Prompt> find ./ -name "*.*" -exec grep "namespace" {} /dev/null \;

./Alarm/AddedHandler.cs:namespace Alarm
./Alarm/DeletedHandler.cs:namespace Alarm
./Alarm/UpdatedHandler.cs:namespace Alarm
./Connections/AddedHandler.cs:namespace Connections
./Connections/DeletedHandler.cs:namespace Connections
./Connections/UpdatedHandler.cs:namespace Connections
./Robot.Api/AddedHandler.cs:namespace Robot
./Robot.Api/DeletedHandler.cs:namespace Robot
./Robot.Api/UpdatedHandler.cs:namespace Robot

... into:

Prompt> find ./ -name "*.*" -exec grep "namespace" {} /dev/null \; | <turn_colon_into_list_of_spaces>

./Alarm/AddedHandler.cs         : namespace Alarm
./Alarm/DeletedHandler.cs       : namespace Alarm
./Alarm/UpdatedHandler.cs       : namespace Alarm
./Connections/AddedHandler.cs   : namespace Connections
./Connections/DeletedHandler.cs : namespace Connections
./Connections/UpdatedHandler.cs : namespace Connections
./Robot.Api/AddedHandler.cs     : namespace Robot
./Robot.Api/DeletedHandler.cs   : namespace Robot
./Robot.Api/UpdatedHandler.cs   : namespace Robot

(I don't care whether or not the colons are still present.)

CodePudding user response：

You can pipe the output to column:

find ... | column -ts:

CodePudding user response：

This find sed should work for you:

find . -type f -exec grep -H "namespace" {}   | sed 's/:/\t\t\t/'

Here:

• Using -H option in grep to get filenames in output
• Using for more efficient find execution
• Using sed to replace only first : with 3 tabs