How to instruct 'find' to perform -exec with its argument is from
-printf, not from the default find output.
tried so far in vain:
find ~+ -type d -printf '%p /d/data/%p_%s\n' -exec cp \{\} \
On 3/19/19, Budi <budikus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How do we make 'find' to perform -exec with its argument is from
> -printf, not from the default find output.
> tried so far in vain:
> find ~+ -type d -printf '%p /d/data/%p_%s\n' -exec cp \{\} \;
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> On 3/16/19, Dale R. Worley <wor...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> I think what you are asking for is something like:
>>
>> i=0
>> while ...
>> do
>> find . -mindepth $i -maxdepth $i ...
>> i=$(( i+1 ))
>> done
>>
>> That will look at all the files and directories at one depth before
>> looking at all the files and directories at the next greater depth. (It
>> doesn't have any way of testing when i is larger than the depth of the
>> file tree.)
>>
>> Dale
>>
>
