James Youngman writes:
>> > find /sbin /usr/sbin -executable \! -readable -print
>>
>> let's escape ! here for no reason
>
> The interpretation of and quoting rules for ! have changed
> substantially over the years (for example, it is a reserved word in
> only some sh variants, and who knows how i
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Isabella Parakiss wrote:
>
> find's man page has some god-awful examples:
>
> > find . -type f -exec file '{}' \;
> >
> > Runs `file' on every file in or below the current directory. Notice
> > that the braces are enclosed in single quote marks to protect them
> >
find's man page has some god-awful examples:
> find . -type f -exec file '{}' \;
>
> Runs `file' on every file in or below the current directory. Notice
> that the braces are enclosed in single quote marks to protect them
> from interpretation as shell script punctuation. The semicolon is
> simi
