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[find] Run and understand. Use the path output by the find command in other commands

created-2025/11/13 updated-2026/03/15

Introduction

This repository uses the -exec option of the find command to pass the file path to the grep command and run it.

Commands that need to be installed

  1. git

Quickstart

If you have already installed the above command, run the following command to download it from the repository, then change the directory and run the grep command using the -exec option of the find command.

ubuntu

git clone https://github.com/trygfmi/find_-exec_getMatchedFilepath


cd find_-exec_getMatchedFilepath


find . -type f -exec grep -l "hello" {} +


find . -type f -exec grep -l "world" {} +
Output results 
./README.md
./folder1/example3.txt
./folder1/folder3/example5.txt

./README.md
./folder1/example2.txt
./folder1/folder2/example4.txt

macos

MacPorts

source ~/bashrc_folder/macports_alias


git clone https://github.com/trygfmi/find_-exec_getMatchedFilepath


cd find_-exec_getMatchedFilepath


find . -type f -exec grep -l "hello" {} +


find . -type f -exec grep -l "world" {} +
Output results 
./README.md
./folder1/example3.txt
./folder1/folder3/example5.txt

./README.md
./folder1/example2.txt
./folder1/folder2/example4.txt

windows

WSL2

git clone https://github.com/trygfmi/find_-exec_getMatchedFilepath


cd find_-exec_getMatchedFilepath


find . -type f -exec grep -l "hello" {} +


find . -type f -exec grep -l "world" {} +
Output results 
./README.md
./folder1/example3.txt
./folder1/folder3/example5.txt

./README.md
./folder1/example2.txt
./folder1/folder2/example4.txt

MSYS2 MINGW64

git clone https://github.com/trygfmi/find_-exec_getMatchedFilepath


cd find_-exec_getMatchedFilepath


find . -type f -exec grep -l "hello" {} +


find . -type f -exec grep -l "world" {} +
Output results 
./folder1/example3.txt
./folder1/folder3/example5.txt
./README.md

./folder1/example2.txt
./folder1/folder2/example4.txt
./README.md

Procedure

ubuntu

Click to open details

Advance confirmation

Enter the following command into the terminal and if command not found does not appear, it is OK.

git --version

preinstall

If the command not found appears in the terminal, please install it using the following command.

sudo apt install git

command

Executing the following command should output a string similar to the following:

git clone https://github.com/trygfmi/find_-exec_getMatchedFilepath


cd find_-exec_getMatchedFilepath


find . -type f -exec grep -l "hello" {} +


find . -type f -exec grep -l "world" {} +
detail 
./README.md
./folder1/example3.txt
./folder1/folder3/example5.txt

./README.md
./folder1/example2.txt
./folder1/folder2/example4.txt

macos

Click to open details

Advance confirmation

Enter the following command into the terminal and if command not found does not appear, it is OK.

source ~/bashrc_folder/macports_alias


git --version

※MacOS uses the MacPorts package manager to manage commands. If you haven’t installed it yet, please see the MacPorts installation instructions at the link below.

It also allows you to set aliases for commands so that you can call them without conflicting with existing environments.

If you are using this blog for the first time, please refer to the following two articles to set up your environment.

[macos] Steps to install MacPorts
[macos] Setting aliases for commands installed with MacPorts

preinstall

If the command not found appears in the terminal, install it using the following command and set an alias.

sudo port install git


echo 'alias git="/opt/local/bin/git"' >> ~/bashrc_folder/macports_alias

COMMAND

Executing the following command should output a string similar to the following:

source ~/bashrc_folder/macports_alias


git clone https://github.com/trygfmi/find_-exec_getMatchedFilepath


cd find_-exec_getMatchedFilepath


find . -type f -exec grep -l "hello" {} +


find . -type f -exec grep -l "world" {} +
detail 
./README.md
./folder1/example3.txt
./folder1/folder3/example5.txt

./README.md
./folder1/example2.txt
./folder1/folder2/example4.txt

windows

Click to open details

Advance confirmation

Enter the following command into the prompt and if command not found does not appear, it’s OK.

WSL2
git --version
MSYS2 MINGW64
git --version

※Windows has been confirmed to work with WSL2 and MSYS2 MINGW64. Please install WSL2 if possible, and if you are unable to set it up, you can run it by installing MSYS2, but there may be some commands that can only be run in WSL2. Please refer to the following article for instructions on how to install WSL2 and MSYS2.

[windows] Steps to install WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
[Windows] Steps to install msys2

preinstall

If the command not found appears in the prompt, please install it using the following command.

WSL2
sudo apt install git
MSYS2 MINGW64
pacman --sync git

command

Executing the following command should output a string similar to the following:

WSL2
git clone https://github.com/trygfmi/find_-exec_getMatchedFilepath


cd find_-exec_getMatchedFilepath


find . -type f -exec grep -l "hello" {} +


find . -type f -exec grep -l "world" {} +
detail 
./README.md
./folder1/example3.txt
./folder1/folder3/example5.txt

./README.md
./folder1/example2.txt
./folder1/folder2/example4.txt
MSYS2 MINGW64
git clone https://github.com/trygfmi/find_-exec_getMatchedFilepath


cd find_-exec_getMatchedFilepath


find . -type f -exec grep -l "hello" {} +


find . -type f -exec grep -l "world" {} +
detail 
./folder1/example3.txt
./folder1/folder3/example5.txt
./README.md

./folder1/example2.txt
./folder1/folder2/example4.txt
./README.md

Afterword

find . -type f -exec grep -l "hello" {} +

The above shell means that it will execute all files under the current directory that contain “hello” in a single process, as far as possible, from the file path in {}.

The . is the current directory, -type f targets files, the -exec option is followed by a command, the -l option outputs only the file path, “hello” is specified as the search string, the symbol {} stores the string output by the find command, and the character + is used to execute as many commands as possible in a single process.

find . -type f -exec grep -l "hello" {} \;

It can be executed, but since it runs one process for each file path, it seems that processing will be slow if there are many

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