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Tubby Tommy
Tubby Tommy

Reputation: 31

Running a binary using find -exec linux command

odd question I am playing around with the Linux find command and can successfully find a script file, I then want to run it without spawning a new shell is that possible?

example:

$ find ~ iname script.sh -exec ls -s {} -exec bash {} +

this successfully runs the script but I don't want to spawn a new shell, is it possible to just run the script?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1429

Answers (1)

Charles Duffy
Charles Duffy

Reputation: 295403

Do you mean you want to source the scripts you find into your current shell? If so:

while IFS= read -r -d '' scriptname; do
  printf '%s\n' "$scriptname" >&2
  source "$scriptname"
done < <(find ~ -iname script.sh -print0)

If you merely mean that you want to avoid more than one interpreter being involved when running them as subprocesses:

find ~ -iname script.sh -exec ls -sh '{}' ';' -exec '{}' ';'

...quoting {} isn't necessary for bash, but it's a habit to be in if one's code may be used from zsh.

Upvotes: 2

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