find -exec question
R Kimber
richardkimber at btinternet.com
Tue May 13 20:53:37 UTC 2014
On Mon, 12 May 2014 08:21:38 -0400
Normand Marion wrote:
> find will be traversing the directory tree in the order items are stored
> within the directory entries.
>
> so do
>
> find dir -type f | sort [sort_param] | xargs -i command {}
Many thanks. This works fine. I've always been a bit wary of xargs; I'll
have to learn more about it.
- Richard.
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