Re: Help with either bash or find...

[Todd Zullinger]

Gordon Messmer wrote:
>  Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > I think something similar with xargs would work too:
> >
> > find -name '*.mpc' -print0 | \
> >     xargs -0 -i mppdec "{}" "`echo {} | sed s/.mpc/.wav`"
> >
>
>  No, because the section in backticks would be executed by the shell,
>  before xargs.
>
>  xargs can't be used to run anything with shell substitution.  It
>  doesn't call system(). 
Thanks for clarifying Gordon.  I wasn't positive it would work.  I
tend to use for | while more often when I need to do something
individually for each line/file/arg.

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