Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/20/2018 05:23 AM, Étienne Mollier wrote: >> [snip] >>> My take away from answers so far is "A script will be required." >> >> Not necessarily, the trouble is: "find" is so vast, you can >> spend hours in the manual to search for adequate option for >> your specific need, and end up writing a script, instead of >> having found "the proper option". > > I don't think "find" itself is the problem. > Debian seems to do some 'black magic' to conflate "standard output" and > "standard input". Otherwise a pipe command would be required between > "find" and "grep".
No it doesn't. find has functionality built in to pass results onward (-exec or -xargs) -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
