Re: Question about find(1): How to invoke multiple commands in exec?

[martin]

"AR" == Andreas R <not_a_real_address@nowhere.com> writes:
 AR> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:33:13 +0200
 AR> 
 AR> If for example I want to count all the files in a subdirectories of the 
 AR> current directory, I thoght I would need something like that:

hi,

try 

  find . -type f -print | wc -l

martin

 AR> 
 AR> find . -type d -exec find "{}" -print | wc -l \;
 AR> find: missing argument to `-exec'
 AR> wc: ;: No such file or directory
 AR> 
 AR> Parenthesing doesn't help:
 AR> find . -type d -exec (find "{}" -print | wc -l) \;
 AR> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
 AR> 
 AR> Escaping the parentheses doesn't help either:
 AR> find . -type d -exec \( find "{}" -print | wc -l \) \;
 AR> find: missing argument to `-exec'
 AR> wc: ): No such file or directory
 AR> wc: ;: No such file or directory
 AR>       0 total
 AR> 
 AR> Does anyone has an idea how to do it the right way?
 AR> 
 AR> 
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