How to pipeline in a line by line fashion in ubuntu

Question

For example, I have a code can find me the directory name in the current folder without . in the front:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -regex '\./[^.]*$'

However, it gives me

./Templates
./eclipse-workspace
./Public
./Documents
./VirtualBox VMs
./Videos
./CLionProjects
./jd2

I need to do

du -sh

for each line of them sequentially, how can I do?

`find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -regex '\./[^.]*$' -exec du -sh '{}' +`? — melpomene, Jan 28 '18 at 21:08

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 28 '18 at 21:41

While there is a -exec command built into find, it is difficult to use (see Why does find -exec mv {} ./target/ + not work ? (on cygwin)).

What you are looking for is this pipe command:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -regex '\./[^.]*$' | cut -c 3-

Anytime the find command output something, the cuts happen.

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