[bug #31240] find -exec can't access shell environment (alias or functions)

[James Youngman]

Update of bug #31240 (project findutils):

                  Status:                    None => Invalid                
             Assigned to:                    None => jay                    
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

find -exec is designed not to launch commands via the shell.  This is
standard feature of all implementations of find, and it's intended that way in
order to better handle unusual filenames.

You can achieve the effect you want by using sh -c as the 'command' for find
-exec and executing your pipeline that way.   There are examples of this in
the 'Common Tasks' section of the Texinfo documentation.

(I'm marking this bug "invalid" because it's not a bug in find.)

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