find and do command needed

[Jayson Hurd_2]

I am looking for a command that will find any .gz file recursively and unzip it. I am trying this:

find /test/test2 -name *.gz -exec gunzip -v {}\;

This is returning an error with the find piece. Can anyone suggest a valid command to accomplish this in HPUX 11i?

[curt larson_1 · Accepted solution]

put quotes around '*.gz' and be sure that there is a space between the {} and \;

find /test/test2 -name '*.gz' -exec gunzip -v {} \;

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The problem is your -name argument; it expects EXACTLY 1 argument and *.gz supplies n arguments. The solution is to change *.gz to '*.gz' so that the find command rather than the shell will do the wildcarding/filename expansion.

[John Poff]

Hi,

You probably need quotes to protect the asterisk from getting expanded by the shell. Try this:

find /test/test2 -name '*.gz' -exec gunzip -v {} \;

JP

[Jannik]

for i in $(find /test/test2 -name *.gz)
> do
> gunzip -v $i
> done