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From: tmh@well.UUCP (Todd M. Hoff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Find doesn't expand {}
Message-ID: <12502@well.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jul 89 01:05:57 GMT
Reply-To: tmh@well.UUCP (Todd M. Hoff)
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Why doesn't this work:

    find . -type d -print -exec mkdir /xx/yy/zz/{} \;

The '{}' doesn't expand out to the filename like you might
expect. Yet this does work: find . -exec ls {} \;. '{} expands
to the filenames and the files are listed.

Why the difference?

Config: RTs running BSD 4.3.