Subj : Re: How to execute more than one command with find -exec?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : noi
Date : Thu Nov 18 2004 04:15 pm

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:35:30 +0800, Cheng Mo thoughtfully wrote:

> The scenario is:
> In folder XXX there are lots of *.gif files. Those *.gif files whose
> filename don't appear in file abc.txt should be deleted. I want to do this
> job in one line command.
> find XXX -name "*.gif" -exec ........... \; But I don't know how to write
> the part of ..............
> 
> I tried
> find XXX -name "*.gif" -exec grep {} abc.txt || rm {} \; But it seems
> -exec don't take behind as a combination of two commands. Anybody can tell
> me how to execute more than one command with find -exec? Thanks


Seems complicated with find.  Alternative? 
tar -zcf gif.tgz -T abc.txt && find XXX -iname "*.gif" -exec rm {}\;  

In your example, 

find XXX -iname "*.gif"  | grep -v -f abc.txt | xargs rm

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