Running Hunspell in all subdirectories

Question

I want to run Hunspell in all subdirectories and check all the markdown files in there.

Easy right?

So I wrote: find ./ -type f -exec hunspell -l *.md {} \;

When I run this command it shows much more than only the three test markdown files. What is wrong with this command?

PS:
-l means that Hunspell will only output the words that have a spelling error.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 28 '16 at 14:31

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You could look for only the *.md files,

find . -iname '*.md' -type f -exec hunspell -l {} \;

Since you are not looking for a certain file name pattern, passing {} like that to hunspell means every file.

Update: added the quotes to the initial answer

edited Sep 28 '16 at 14:31

Bob van Luijt

answered Sep 28 '16 at 14:22

Baris Demiray

Thanks! That's close. But now it doesn't go through the md files in the subdirs – Bob van Luijt Sep 28 '16 at 14:25
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Interesting, apparently quotes are needed, http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/123440/why-is-my-find-not-recursive. Could you try with that? – Baris Demiray Sep 28 '16 at 14:29

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