[nzlug] How to call functions in `find -exec' or `xargs'

[Johann Schoonees]

Hi

I've much appreciated recent posts on this list and pages like 
http://dmiessler.com/study/find/ to upskill my use of find and xargs. 
  I'm still stuck on one point though:

find and xargs seem to expect an executable or builtin as the first 
argument of the "command".  Supplying the name of a function results 
in "No such file or directory".

Can anyone give me a pointer to using function calls in find or xargs? 
  I would like to write a self-contained bash script containing 
functions, not one that has to call subsidiary scripts.

Here is a much simplified example of what goes wrong:


#!/bin/bash
function myls ()
{
     command ls -1 "$@"
}
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 myls "$*"


$ ./example.sh
xargs: myls: No such file or directory
$

Similarly for `find ... -exec myls ...' instead of piping to xargs.

Thanks!
Johann

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