Is it possible to get "find -exec" expand backticks for each file found?

Here's a command that works fine:

echo Blah: `stat -c %a .`

Is it possible to get find -exec to execute this same thing for every file found, with {} in place of .?

Solution 1:

The best way to do that is to use positional parameters. And $() is preferred for command substitution ove backticks because it's more readable (isn't confused with single quotes) and can be easily nested without having to do a lot of escaping.

find . -exec bash -c 'echo Blah: $(stat -c %a "$@")' _ {} \;

The underscore is a placeholder for $0.

Solution 2:

What for?

find ... -printf 'Blah: %m\n'

Or use bash -c if you really have to:

 find . -exec bash -c 'echo Blah: `stat -c %a {}`' \;