in reply to Re^2: Finding and sorting files in massive file directory
in thread Finding and sorting files in massive file directory

See the xargs command. It can help with breaking apart large command lines. 

find . -type f -name b\* -depth -2 | xargs $command_that_can_be_run_mu
+ltiple_times

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Update: added example.

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