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Re:Four features that justify a new Unix shell by zimpenfish on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:33PM (#24876462)
If I've not wildly misunderstood what you're doing with that line (and apologies if I have), could you not just stick `-printf '%f\n'` on the end of the `find` command?

(By definition, since you're looking for `.ogg` files, everything `find` finds will have a path that ends in a three letter extension.)

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Re:Four features that justify a new Unix shell by esaym on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:55PM (#24876819)
Ah, that is a good one! I've never even messed with the -prinf options.
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Re:Four features that justify a new Unix shell by zimpenfish on Saturday October 24, 2020 @06:18AM (#24878206)
It's one of those things that's immensely helpful but difficult to discover organically, I think, since a lot of people will go "find outputs this, now I pipeline to transform that, this is The Unix Way" and never realise that `find` can do a bunch of transforms for you for free.
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