I always use it in the form: find . -iname '*.someextension' -exec ls -l {} \; {} gets expanded to the matching file names. Of course ls -l is just an examp

I always use it in the form: find . -iname '*.someextension' -exec ls -l {} \; {} gets expanded to the matching file names. Of course ls -l is just an example of command to run against the file name.