On 2020-04-16 12:31, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > find -name 'whatever' \ > -exec sh -c " > for f in \"\${@}\"; do > do_stuff \"\${f}\" && echo \"\${f}\" > done > " - {} +
# untested, use at own risk NL=' ' export NL AWKPROG='{print "do_stuff @" $0 "@ && printf %s @" $0 "@ :$NL:";}' AWKPROG=${AWKPROG//@/"'"} ; AWKPROG=${AWKPROG//:/'"'} find -name "$FOO" | awk "$AWKPROG" | sh This should work even if sh is dash - only the AWKPROG translations are bash specific (and they could probably be avoided at the cost of other ugliness, maybe with sed). BTW, the only difference between $FOO and ${FOO} is to protect against alphanumerics literally following the occurence of FOO. It has no quoting effect on the _contents_ of $FOO. -- Ian