Output of command when piped to another command I am running a command which does a quick checksum of some file like so find / -type f -ctime +30 -mtime +30 -atime +30 -exec md5sum {} \; | xargs -P 4 and I am trying to run it in parallel with xargs -P 4 Now, when I run the find command, by itself, I see output as each file is being checksummed. But when I pipe it to xargs, I no longer see the output of the find command. Is there a way I could see the output of find when it is piped to another command?

You want this:


find / -type f -ctime +30 -mtime +30 -atime +30 -print0 | xargs -0 -P 4 md5sum


You want the list of files to be fedinto the md5sum command. This is done with `find / | xargs md5sum`. Then you want to not have to worry about crazy characters (spaces, newlines, whatever) in filenames, so we use `-print0` for find and `-0` for xargs.