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.
-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.