Executing commands with fd

fd supports command execution on the found results using -x. This runs an external command for each of the search results in parallel. In combination with the 'placeholder syntax', this allows us to easily do some batch renaming, such as changing the file extension, or adding a prefix.

fd * -x mv {} prefix-{}

fd also has -X, which launches the external command once with all search results as arguments.

Some other helpful commands are to run a function on every folder:

// {.} returns the directories without any path
fd -d 1 -x <cmd>{.}

Similar things can be accomplished with [[20220704022340-xargs]]

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd#command-execution

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