Hi Randall,
Thanks for the explanation and the working version.
Best,
Sheryl
--- Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sheryl,
>
> [ Non-Cygwin-specific ]
>
>
> Here's how I'd do this:
>
> find . -name "*.frm" -exec wc -l {} ;
>
>
> The result looks something like this (I changed the
> ".frm" suffix to
> ".java" for the purpose of finding some files on my
> system):
>
> 1114 ./DeferredUpdateKB.java
> 295 ./Definitor.java
> 93 ./FlatFormatStrategy.java
> 59 ./FormatStrategy.java
> 139 ./FormattingCursor.java
> 111 ./FormulaPrinter.java
> 77 ./FormulaRenderer.java
> 1379 ./KBContext.java
> 4503 ./KIF3.java
> 191 ./KIF3Constants.java
> 544 ./KIF3Generator.java
> 293 ./KIF3InfixPrinter.java
> 2431 ./KIF3TokenManager.java
> 91 ./LexicalGenerator.java
> 1912 ./NameTable.java
> 298 ./ParseActions.java
> 192 ./ParseException.java
> 913 ./PrefixPrinter.java
> 175 ./PrettyFormatStrategy.java
> 401 ./SimpleCharStream.java
> 1848 ./TauTest.java
> 81 ./Token.java
> 133 ./TokenMgrError.java
>
>
> To let you know why what you tried wasn't working,
> you must realize that
> the pipe split the "find" command (and the "cat"
> subprocesses it spawns)
> from the "tail" command. The "-exec" option of find
> is pretty much just a
> means of invoking the Unix "exec(2)" system call. It
> is not like the
> "system(3)" library routine, which uses a shell to
> interpret the command
> string.
>
> If you want pipelines, glob expansion or other shell
> features in the
> commands executed by the "-exec" option, you should
> use "sh -c" or "bash
> -c". Note, too, that in that case the command
> argument to the "-c" option
> must be a single argument. This can get tricky as
> far as quoting and all.
> Fortunately, the "{}" marker into which the current
> "find" target is
> substituted does work when embedded within a larger
> string--it need not be
> an total, isolated "find" argument.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
>
>
> At 11:39 2002-10-04, Sheryl McKeown wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm attempting to find the number of lines in each
> >file of a source directory.
> >
> >Using bash, I'm using the following command:
> >
> >find . -name "*.frm" -exec cat -n {} | tail -n1 ;
> >but it returns the error
> >
> >cfind: missing argument to `-exec'
> >tail: ;: No such file or directory
> >
> >I've tried various quoting schemes but I can't seem
> to
> >get it to work.
> >
> >I am running XP Prof SP1.
> >
> >Any help is appreciated.
> >
> >-Sheryl
>
>
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