Make phantomjs run all '*.js' files in the current directory

Question

I want to write a script to call phantomjs on a bunch of test scripts in a directory. This script runs the first test and then exits.

#!/bin/bash

find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.js' -type f -exec phantomjs {} +

Executing a similar command with echo, like

find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.js' -type f -exec echo {} +

prints (as expected) all the filenames in the directory.

How can I make phantomjs run all .js files in the current directory? Is this a bash problem or a phantomjs problem?

Is it important to run a single `phantomjs` process for all the files at once? If not, then you can replace `+` with `\;` to run one `phantomjs` for each file. — janos, May 24 '16 at 17:39

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '16 at 17:53

AFAIK phantomjs will only support one file at the time. You need to tell find to call phantomjs for each found file:

#!/bin/sh
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.js' -type f -exec phantomjs {} ';'

You can also use:

#!/bin/sh
for file in *.js; do
  [ -f "$file" ] || continue
  phantomjs "$file"
done

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