Question

I’m using a find command which results in multiple lines for result, I then want to pipe each of those lines into an ls command with the-l option specified.

find . -maxdepth 2  -type f |<some splitting method> | ls -l

I want to do this in one “command” and avoid writing to a file.

Answer 1

I believe this is what you are looking for:

find . -maxdepth 2  -type f -exec ls -l {} \;

Explanation:

• find . -maxdepth 2 -type f: find files with maxdepth at 2
• -exec ls -l {} \; For each such result found, run ls -l on it; {} specifies where the results from find would be substituted into.