How do I use a pipe in the exec parameter for a find command?

Question

I'm trying to construct a find command to process a bunch of files in a directory using two different executables. Unfortunately, `-exec` on find doesn't allow to use pipe or even `\|` because the shell interprets that character first. Here is specifically what I'm trying to do (which doesn't work because pipe ends the find command): ``` find /path/to/jpgs -type f -exec jhead -v {} | grep 123 \; -print ```

Accepted Answer

Try this

```
find /path/to/jpgs -type f -exec sh -c 'jhead -v {} | grep 123' \; -print
```

Alternatively you could try to embed your exec statement inside a sh script and then do:

```
find -exec some_script {} \;
```

How do I use a pipe in the exec parameter for a find command?

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