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

A slightly different approach would be to use xargs:

find /path/to/jpgs -type f -print0 | xargs -0 jhead -v | grep 123

which I always found a bit easier to understand and to adapt (the -print0 and -0 arguments are necessary to cope with filenames containing blanks)

This might (not tested) be more effective than using -exec because it will pipe the list of files to xargs and xargs makes sure that the jhead commandline does not get too long.