Supplying find command with multiple filenames

[Danny Fang]

HI,

I'm attempting to do a dos2unix for several files with different pattern names, all of which are located in different directory locations.

I need to do a dos2unix on the following file types on a HPUX-11:
i) *.sh
ii) *.csh
iii)*.perf
iv) checkcomp*

I could do a for loop, and supply the for loop with the filenames listed in (i) - (iv), if they are all located in the same directory. However, it's not the case here.

How do I supply multiple filenames as arguments into the find command ?

Thanks
Danny.

[Dennis Handly]

>following file types on a HP-UX-11:
1) *.sh
2) *.csh
3) *.perf
4) checkcomp*

find path1 path2 \( -name "*.sh" -o -name "*.csh" -o -name "*.perf" \
-o -name "checkcomp*" \) ...

[Eric SAUBIGNAC · Accepted solution]

Bonjour,

Following Denis's answer, something like :

find path1 path2 -type f \( -name "*.sh" -o -name "*.csh" -o -name "*.perf" -o -name "checkcomp*" \) | while read FILE
do
echo "Working on $FILE ... \c"
cp -p "$FILE" "$FILE".old
dos2ux $FILE.old > $FILE
echo "terminated"
done

Of course make some tests before applying this

Eric

[ManojK_1]

One shot you can do this by the following command if you don't want to preserver the original file.

find . -name '*-M' -o -name '*-D' -o -name '*-C' -exec dos2ux {} \;

Manoj K

[ManojK_1]

One shot you can do this by the following command if you don't want to preserver the original file.

find . -name '*.sh' -o -name '*.csh' -o -name '*.perf' -o -name 'checkcomp'-exec dos2ux {} \;

Manoj K