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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Find doesn't expand {}
Message-ID: <1073@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 89 12:24:34 GMT
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In article <12502@well.UUCP>, tmh@well.UUCP (Todd M. Hoff) writes:
> 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.

1. find looks for the {} as an explicit argument, not as a sub-part of another
   argument.  I agree with you in that {} should be substituted even if it
   is a part of an argument.

2. The find . -exec ls {} \;  will list all of the files twice (once when the
   directory is visited and once as it visits each file.   Maybe you would 
   want to use something like "find . -print".


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