Reuben D. Budiardja wrote
>
> Hi all,
> I need some help here. I read manual, but am still not quite good with "find".
>
> How do I find all object files (*.o, *.a, *.so) recursively under the current
> directory, and pass the result to "nm" so that I can get all the symbol of
> all those object files?
>
> So the problems are:
> 1. Find the object files recursively <-- not quite sure how to do this
> 2. pass the result to "nm". I can't figure this out, here is what I've tried:
>
> [rb@dev petsc-2.1.6]$ find -iname libpetscgsolver.a
> ./lib/libg/linux-gnu/libpetscgsolver.a
>
> [rb@dev petsc-2.1.6]$ find -iname libpetscgsolver.a | nm -o
> nm: a.out: No such file or directory
>
> So even when I pipe it to "nm", it wont accept it, why? I can do this however:
>
> [rb@dev petsc-2.1.6]$ nm -o `find -iname libpetscgsolver.a`
>
> with the backtick, but I'm not sure if that would work if the output of find
> is more than one file.
find . -name '*.a' ... (other arguments to find) ... | xargs -i nm -o {}
I'm not sure what you're having trouble with wrt. the find command itself.
You may need multiple -o and -name options :
find . -name '*.o' -o -name '*.a' -o -name '*.so' | xargs -i nm -o {}
-justinb
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Justin Banks
Constant Data, Inc.
http://www.constantdata.com
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