Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 23:44:58 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@gorean.org> To: Jason McNew <jase@clearsail.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find... pilot error? Message-ID: <3634287A.1900A74E@gorean.org> References: <3633F0AA.6E4A0B97@clearsail.net>
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Jason McNew wrote:
>
> After reading the find man page, I tried using:
> find / -name "*.mp3" -exec mpg123 {};
> and it tells me:
> find: -exec: no terminating ";"
> if I do:
> find / -name "*.mp3" -exec mpg123 {}\;
> it runs ok, but mpg123 just gives me syntax help a few times.
> So, I tried:
> find / -name "*.mp3" -exec echo {}\;
> and it just spits out a bunch of blank lines.
> Although:
> find / -name "*.mp3" -print
> works exactly how i'd expect it.
I don't know what mpg123 expects as an argument, but in a case like
this I fall back on my shell. Assuming you're using Bash or sh, this
should work:
for FILE in `find / -name '\*.mp3'`; do
mpg123 $FILE
done
You might also get better results using the '\*.mp3' with the -exec
line, but the script above should work.
Good luck,
Doug
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