On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 02:48:36PM -0200, Antonio Alberto Lobato wrote:
>
> # find /var/log -type f -exec echo -n > {} \;
>
> Why find create a file called "{}", instead to erase files contents?
Oi!
From the find manpage:
-exec command ;
Execute command; true if 0 status is returned. All
following arguments to find are taken to be argu
ments to the command until an argument consisting
of `;' is encountered. The string `{}' is replaced
by the current file name being processed everywhere
it occurs in the arguments to the command, not just
in arguments where it is alone, as in some versions
of find. Both of these constructions might need to
be escaped (with a `\') or quoted to protect them
from expansion by the shell. The command is exe
cuted in the starting directory.
Try replacing the ">" with "\>"
Ate mais,
Pedro
