Question

I have written an executable in c++, which is designed to take input from a file, and output to stdout (which I would like to redirect to a single file). The issue is, I want to run this on all of the files in a folder, and the find command that I am using is not cooperating. The command that I am using is:

find -name files/* -exec ./stagger < {} \;

From looking at examples, it is my understanding that {} replaces the file name. However, I am getting the error:

-bash: {}: No such file or directory

I am assuming that once this is ironed out, in order to get all of the results into one file, I could simply use the pattern Command >> outputfile.txt.

Thank you for any help, and let me know if the question can be clarified.

Answer 1

The problem that you are having is that redirection is processed before the find command. You can work around this by spawning another bash process in the -exec call:

find files/* -exec bash -c '/path/to/stagger < "$1"' -- {} \;