creating pipes in find(1) - (nf)

[johnl at cca.UUCP]

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ima!johnl    Oct  3 10:25:00 1984

> How do I build a pipe within the exec portion of find?
> Example:
> 	find /etc -name printcap -exec cat {} | lpr \;

The short answer is that you can't -- find uses an exec() call to
run what it runs, and exec won't create pipes.  Any "|" characters are
handled by the shell.  In the Bourne shell, though, you can do stuff like
this:

	find /etc -name foo - print | while read fn do
	 cat $fn | lpr
	done

I suppose that there's some way to do that in the C shell, too.

John Levine, ima!johnl