Re: find

[Antonio Alberto Lobato <tomlobato@yahoo.com>]

Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote:

> 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

Thanks, but...
It does not work. I already had tried.





Tom

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