On Saturday, October 20, 2018 08:35:51 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > I don't think "find" itself is the problem. > Debian seems to do some 'black magic' to conflate "standard output" and > "standard input". Otherwise a pipe command would be required between > "find" and "grep".
I didn't go back all the way in the thread to look for a command without a pipe between find and grep, but, the line I did find using both find and grep used -exec as that black magic.