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Ubuntu - Find - Run one or more commands for each of finds results

To run a single command for each file found:

find dirname ... -exec somecommand {} \;

To run multiple commands in sequence for each file found, where the second command should only be run if the first command succeeds:

find dirname ... -exec somecommand {} \; -exec someothercommand {} \;

To run a single command on multiple files at once:

find dirname ... -exec somecommand {} +

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