‘find -exec’ a shell function in Linux

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Since only the shell knows how to run shell functions, you have to run a shell to run a function. You also need to mark your function for export with export -f, otherwise the subshell won’t inherit them:

export -f dosomething
find . -exec bash -c 'dosomething "$0"' {} \;

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