Disclaimer: I am a novice to Unix/Linux, but I am looking forward to learning! I have tried a search on this stackexchange and read the the man find, but I can't seem to figure this out.
I want to use the find ... -exec {} + command to recursively find all files with a particular file extension and run a command on the list of files. There are approximately 100k files that I need to convert. The command that I am running accepts the filename (or a list of filenames, eg f1 f2 f3) as a parameter, but I also need to specify additional parameters to run the command.
What I tried so far:
This works:
find . -iname "*.extension" -exec <command> {} <additional parameters> \;
This doesn't seem to work:
find . -iname "*.extension" -exec <command> {} <additional parameters> +
I get the error message, find: missing argument to '-exec'. I am guessing that I cannot specify additional parameters after the {}?
Some notes:
The command in question takes the filename as the first parameter, and then I need to designate some additional parameters, such as the output directory -o <outputDir> and the variables to extract from the files -v <var1,var2,...>.
I am running this on the terminal in Ubuntu 12.04, if that makes any difference.
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