Find and perl

[Leo The Cat]

Hi

Here a find command

find /su01 -name "opatch.pl" 2>/dev/null
result is:
/su01/app/oracle/product/1010/OPatch/opatch.pl

How to execute the result with parameters like this:

perl "My Result from the find command" -lsinventory -detail

any idea ?

Bests Regards
Den

[Ivan Ferreira]

You can use -exec, and {} will be replaced by the file found:

find /su01 -name "opatch.pl" -exec perl {} -lsinventory -detail \;

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Den:

If you have the interpreter shebang line defined (as you should), then using Ivan's syntax:

# find /su01 -name "opatch.pl" -exec {} -lsinventory -detail \;

...you will find that regardless of what the interpreter is, the file thus found will be executed.

You could also pre-test with:

# find /su01 -name "opatch.pl" -exec perl -c {} -lsinventory -detail \;

...which would perform a syntax compilation in Perl's case but not actually execute the file.

Regards!

...JRF...