How to execute multiple commands after xargs -0?

Question

find . -name "filename including space" -print0 | xargs -0 ls -aldF > log.txt find . -name "filename including space" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rdf 

Is it possible to combine these two commands into one so that only 1 find will be done instead of 2?

I know for xargs -I there may be ways to do it, which may lead to errors when proceeding filenames including spaces. Any guidance is much appreciated.

Answer 1

find . -name "filename including space" -print0 |    xargs -0 -I '{}' sh -c 'ls -aldF {} >> log.txt; rm -rdf {}' 

---

Ran across this just now, and we can invoke the shell less often:

find . -name "filename including space" -print0 |    xargs -0 sh -c '       for file; do           ls -aldF "$file" >> log.txt           rm -rdf "$file"       done   ' sh 

The trailing "sh" becomes $0 in the shell. xargs provides the files (returrned from find) as command line parameters to the shell: we iterate over them with the for loop.

Answer 2

If you're just wanting to avoid doing the find multiple times, you could do a tee right after the find, saving the find output to a file, then executing the lines as:

find . -name "filename including space" -print0 | tee my_teed_file | xargs -0 ls -aldF > log.txt cat my_teed_file | xargs -0 rm -rdf  

Another way to accomplish this same thing (if indeed it's what you're wanting to accomplish), is to store the output of the find in a variable (supposing it's not TB of data):

founddata=`find . -name "filename including space" -print0` echo "$founddata" | xargs -0 ls -aldF > log.txt echo "$founddata" | xargs -0 rm -rdf