Piping bash output to perl script's arguments

Question

I have the following bash command:

find repo -name '*.c'

What I want to do is use the files returned as arguments to my perl script, so that it's equivalent to running:

perl ./myscript file1.c file2.c file3.c ...

How can I do this?

Answer 1

Try

find repo -name '*.c' | xargs perl ./yourscript

This should be the same as

perl ./yourscript file1.c file2.c file3.c ...

Answer 2

You can try that :

find repository -name '*.c' -exec perl -pe 's:\n: :g' {} +

The delimiter in the substitution is : here, no need to use / both in Perl & sed.

If you prefer a real pipe :

find repository -name '*.c' | xargs cat | perl -pe 's:\n: :g'