Subj : Re: How to execute more than one command with find -exec?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Hrvoje Spoljar
Date : Thu Nov 25 2004 02:09 am

IANAL_VISTA <IANAL_Vista@hotmail.com> na grupi comp.os.linux pise:
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>> 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
>> 
>
> Try creating a script that contains everything you want to do.
>
> P.S.
> I know all about using "|" as the pipe operator.
> What does "||" (double pipe) supposed to do?

same like in c, in [ba]sh it's OR operator... 

though it seems misused in statement find XXX ...
rm {} \;  would be executed only when find XXX ... statement generated
output on sterr

few examples...
ls /somedir || echo " somedir does not exist " 2>/dev/null
or
test -x /etc || echo "/etc does not exist"



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