diff --git a/pages/common/find.md b/pages/common/find.md
index 75cb70ea1..a3ac88adc 100644
--- a/pages/common/find.md
+++ b/pages/common/find.md
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
 
 `find {{root_path}} -name {{'*.py'}}`
 
+- run a command for each file, use {} within the command to access the filename
+
+`find {{root_path}} -name {{'*.py'}} -exec {{wc -l {} }}\;`
+
 - find files modified since a certain time
 
 `find {{root_path}} -name {{'*.py'}} -mtime {{-1d}}`