I'm trying to write a script that will look through a directory, find all the XML files, run them through xmllint
, and save the formatted results to a file of the same name in a subdirectory called formatted
. Here's the script I have so far:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname "*.xml" | xargs -I '{}' xmllint --format '{}' > formatted/'{}'
This works, to an extent. The subdirectory ends up with one file, named "{}"
, which is just the results of the final file that was processed through xmllint
. How can I get the files to write properly to the subdirectory?
The file named
{}
that you see should probably contain all of the formatted files together. The reason for this is that the redirection that you are using is not actually a part of the command thatxargs
sees. The redirection is interpreted by the shell, so what it does is runand save the output to the file named
formatted/{}
.Try using the
--output
option ofxmllint
instead of the redirection:You can also avoid calling
xargs
by using the-exec
option offind
: