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I don't get why echo prints empty line (latest cygwin version):

~/tmp >find mydor/ -name "*php"
mydor/es/c/packags.php
mydor/etns/inx.php
mydor/pacepors.php
mydor/XAE.php

~/tmp >find mydor/ -name "*php" -exec echo {} \;
~/tmp >find mydor/ -name "*php" -exec echo "{}" \;
~/tmp >find mydor/ -name "*php" -exec echo '{}' \;

~/tmp >

~/tmp >find --version
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  • Works for me. You will have to give us details about find and echo, for example from which packages they come and what are their versions.
    – manatwork
    Commented Aug 12, 2013 at 12:07
  • Are you running it from the Cygwin terminal? (The installer puts an icon on your desktop, pointing to “C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -” or similar.)
    – manatwork
    Commented Aug 12, 2013 at 12:12
  • Running from tty with C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe and base path C:\cygwin\bin. More strange: this works: find mydor/ -name "*php" -exec cat {} \;
    – Olivier Pons
    Commented Aug 12, 2013 at 12:13
  • What echo command is find calling? What does bash -c 'type -a echo' tell you? The first non-builtin one would be the one it calls.
    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Commented Aug 12, 2013 at 12:18
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    Probably I didn't reproduced the circumstances exactly, I had to specify the path to the executables, otherwise Windows' own find was executed. But as soon as I specified the path, it worked.
    – manatwork
    Commented Aug 12, 2013 at 12:19

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I did find the answer. Here's how I made it work (and there's a solution to exec 2 process in a row only if the first one succeded, which I didn't found with google):

find ./ -name "*php" -exec sh -c "sed 's/ \+ /\t/g' \"{}\" > tmpfile && mv tmpfile \"{}\"" \;
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    DO NOT embed the {} in the sh code! See sed -i (with GNU sed but you're already using a GNUism with \+) for in-place editing.
    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Commented Aug 12, 2013 at 14:06

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