pipes within a 'find' command

[Steven M. List]

In article <686 at hplabsc.UUCP> quan at hplabsc.UUCP (Suu Quan) writes:
>This command did not work :
>find /usr/spool/eroff -print -exec tbl {} | eqn | eroff -ms \; -exec rm {} \;
>                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>     The underlined pipe is to properly print a file.
>
>Intention : scan all the files in directory /usr/spool/eroff
>            print the file
>            remove the file.
>
>Problem : as is, the command does not work.

How about my personal favorite: xargs...

	find /usr/spool/eroff -print | tee /tmp/jnk$$ |
		xargs -i@ tbl @ | eqn | eroff -ms ; rm -f `cat /tmp/jnk$$` /tmp/jnk$$

This is at least as fast as your find would have been using exec, and
also provides more flexibility.
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