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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