How to execute multiple commands after xargs -0?
If you're just wanting to avoid doing the find
multiple times, you could do a tee
right after the find
, saving the find
output to a file, then executing the lines as:
find . -name "filename including space" -print0 | tee my_teed_file | xargs -0 ls -aldF > log.txt
cat my_teed_file | xargs -0 rm -rdf
Another way to accomplish this same thing (if indeed it's what you're wanting to accomplish), is to store the output of the find
in a variable (supposing it's not TB of data):
founddata=`find . -name "filename including space" -print0`
echo "$founddata" | xargs -0 ls -aldF > log.txt
echo "$founddata" | xargs -0 rm -rdf
find . -name "filename including space" -print0 |
xargs -0 -I '{}' sh -c 'ls -aldF {} >> log.txt; rm -rdf {}'
Ran across this just now, and we can invoke the shell less often:
find . -name "filename including space" -print0 |
xargs -0 sh -c '
for file; do
ls -aldF "$file" >> log.txt
rm -rdf "$file"
done
' sh
The trailing "sh" becomes $0 in the shell. xargs
provides the files (returrned from find
) as command line parameters to the shell: we iterate over them with the for loop.