Re: Executing Shell Pipelines with “find -exec”

On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 13:40:52 -0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber wrote:

This is problematic because the filename is simply interpolated into the
command string, which is then interpreted by sh.  If the filename
contains whitespace or shell meta-characters, the results will be
unexpected.

That is true. I only realized it later, after posting.

You pass the filename as a positional parameter and reference it as such
in the command string.

Another possibility might be to use an environment variable. I have done
this in other scripts.