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• Filter files generated by `find` by parsed output of `file` command
• substring removal in find -exec
• How to Do this List Comparison with Find?
• Using literal empty curly braces {} inside sed command from find -exec
• How do I delete file by filename that are set as dates?
• bash: Deleting directories not containing given strings
• Grep word within a file then copy the file
• Remove certain types of files except in a folder

• Filter files generated by `find` by parsed output of `file` command
• substring removal in find -exec
• How to Do this List Comparison with Find?
• Using literal empty curly braces {} inside sed command from find -exec
• How do I delete file by filename that are set as dates?
• bash: Deleting directories not containing given strings
• Grep word within a file then copy the file
• Remove certain types of files except in a folder

Also, as Stephane Chazelas points out in a comment, GNU xargs requires -0 and -r, whereas FreeBSD xargs only requires -0, and some xargs don't support -0 at all. So it's best to just stick to POSIX features of find (see next section) and skip xargs.

Also, GNU xargs requires -0 and -r, whereas FreeBSD xargs only requires -0 (and has no -r option), and some xargs don't support -0 at all. So it's best to just stick to POSIX features of find (see next section) and skip xargs.

If you need to use shell features in the command, such as redirecting the output or stripping on extension off the filename or something similar, you can make use of the sh -c construct. You should know a few things about this:

If you need to use shell features in the command, such as redirecting the output or stripping an extension off the filename or something similar, you can make use of the sh -c construct. You should know a few things about this: