Re: Newbie administrator
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 04:42:07PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
> Now, one bash question I've been meaning to ask for a long time...
>
> I keep seeing this...
> {} \;
>
> ...on the end of lines in bash scripts. I don't have a good bash book,
> and I don't know what this means, and obviously "man {} \;" isn't
> going to help. Can anyone reveal for thick-headed "programmers" like
> me what that does?
That's actually a question about 'find'. If you look for "-exec" in the
find(1) man page, you'll see where {} (sometimes \{\}) and \; need to be
used.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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