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

Answer 1

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 {} \;