Re: find

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

Johannes Franken 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
>
> That's proper behavior.
>
> The "> {}" goes to your shell (creating that file), so the arguments
> left for find are: "/var/log -type f -exec echo -n"
> (yet another implementation of the NOP command).
>
> Try
> echo >/tmp/blankfile && find /var/log -type f -exec cp /tmp/blankfile {} \;
> instead.

But the files permissions/owner/group would be changed.






Tom


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