1.0trk7's bloghttps://www.trk7.com/blogk7https://www.trk7.com/blog/author/k7/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="TMz9q2iCJr"><a href="https://www.trk7.com/blog/unix-find-xargs-and-basename/">Unix find, xargs and basename.</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.trk7.com/blog/unix-find-xargs-and-basename/embed/#?secret=TMz9q2iCJr" width="600" height="338" title="“Unix find, xargs and basename.” — trk7's blog" data-secret="TMz9q2iCJr" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://www.trk7.com/blog/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js </script> Xargs is great. If you want to know why use xargs over exec, have a read of this: xargs versus exec. But, there is one problem. If the command that you are trying to execute on the results from find cannot take more than one file as param (basename for e.g, can take only one […]