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From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
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Subject: Re: Find doesn't expand {}
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Date: 8 Aug 89 08:22:23 GMT
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In article <12502@well.UUCP> tmh@well.UUCP (Todd M. Hoff) wrote:
>Why doesn't this work:
>
>    find . -type d -print -exec mkdir /xx/yy/zz/{} \;
>
>The '{}' doesn't expand out to the filename ...

Because the parser in find is too crude to recognize a token that's
not delimited by white space.  Try this, instead:

    find . -type d -print | sed 's+^+/xx/yy/zz/+' | xargs mkdir


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