Bash: execute command on results of FIND

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I am trying to resize all files that are found using a FIND command (they are all files within a directory and its subdirectories). I tried many options but stumble across different errors each time. This is my last attempt:

find /my/folder/ -name '*jpg' -exec 'mogrify -resize 900">"{}' \;

I tried many others but to no avail. What goes wrong?

Best Answer

I don't like exec on find very much, it's a bit ancient and unpredictable specially when you feed it all the quotes :)

Try using xargs, it should behave a bit more civilized

find /my/folder/ -name '*jpg' -print0 | xargs -0 -J% "mogrify -resize 900 > %"

Things that are different here

-print0 on find appends a NULL character after each filename as separator

in xargs

-0 tells that the input is separated by NULL char -J% says that % should be replaced by the content in the input (filename in this case)

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