[lug] A Windows user's view of linux

[Sean Reifschneider]

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Stephen Queen wrote:
>> me that a mortal could use the man page for "find" and understand how -exec
>> works. It's just not possible.
> 
> We refer to man pages as clik (CLear If Known).

I don't know, perhaps you're thinking of a different version of it, but
the example seems pretty clear to me:

    find . -type f -exec file '{}' \;

    Runs `file' on every file in or below the  current  directory.   Notice
    that the braces are enclosed in single quote marks to protect them from
    interpretation as shell script punctuation.   The  semicolon  is  simi-
    larly  protected  by the use of a backslash, though ';' could have been
    used in that case also.

Though I think the last part of that paragraph probably meant "+" rather
than ";"...

Sean
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