Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > OOPS! but it's terrible! sorry I did the same mistake as the first time! I > restart. Apologizes.
Please try not to top-post, it makes things harder to read as messages are out of order (see http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/#netiquette). > find . -name \*.html -type f -exec cp -v > \{} /usr/share/doc/mpfr-&mpfr-version; \;</userinput></screen> > > I didn't talk about the . but I meant the \ before {} is not proper. Well, as Bruce pointed out earlier, it's being used here to prevent the shell from interpreting them. See find(1) which gives this example: find . -type f -exec file '{}' \; which uses single quotes to prevent shell-interpretation and explains that a '\' can be used as well (as per the '\;' in that same example). So, I'm happy to either leave the book as-is, or use single-quotes as per find(1). Either way, I think it's pretty clear that strictly speaking, escaping those characters is the correct thing to do even though it may not be required under all shells. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
