Vince Oliver wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I really enjoy command that I learnd few days ago. It finds directories
> with a particular names and do removing of particular files. Something like
>
> find DH* -type f -name "*.dat" -exec rm {} \;
>
> I was wandering, is it posible to 'employ' awk,sed or other commands in
> similar manner and how?.
It's certainly possible using pipes ('|'). Example:
$ find DH* -type f -name "*.dat" -exec cksum {} \; | awk '{ print $1 }'
> For intance to find all "*.dat" in all DH* dirs
> (like above) and calculate average of $3 by awk
Not sure what you want to do here:
- what is $3 in this case ?
- calculate the average what ? Size ? Number of .dat files per directory ?
HTH
Cheers. Bye.
Ph. A.
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