On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Steve Buehler wrote:
> Thank You for the reply. It never hurts to keep learning.
>
> Steve
>
> At 11:24 AM 9/19/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >the {} is a placeholder for the pathname of each file found
> >
> >for some reason, commands need to be ended with an escaped semicolon...
> >
> >kristina
> >
> >On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:10:45AM -0500, Steve Buehler wrote:
> >- Ok. I found another way of doing it. Since chown does not appear to work
> >- the way the "chown --help" says that it will. I now run this find command:
> >- find ./ -user ryukyu -group settlers -exec chown skb.skb {} \;
> >- Now, can someone explain to me what the "{} \;" part of the command does/is
> >- for? It won't run without that part and I can't find anyplace that tells
> >- me what it is for.
as the previous poster explained, the {} represents the name of the
file that was just found that matches your search criteria. the
reason it's used is because you might want to execute a command that
requires the file name in more than one place, such as:
... -exec cp {} {}.bak \;
in addition, any -exec portion of a find command needs to be escaped
with *one* *of*
\;
";"
';'
to show the end of the -exec part, since it's possible to have more
than one -exec clause, as in:
... -exec ls -l {} \; -rm -i {} \;
rday
p.s. both of those features are in the man page for "find", under
the ACTIONS subsection, where -exec is documented.
Robert P. J. Day, RHCE, RHCI
Eno River Technologies, Chapel Hill NC
Unix, Linux and Open Source corporate training
http://www.linux-migration.org
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