[lug] A Windows user's view of linux

[Jeffrey Haemer]

For me, this:

  find . -type f | xargs file

(and the like) is easier to type, and remember how to type, than this:

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

so I switched long ago.

(I post this only because I keep running into folks who've never heard of
xargs.  YMMV.)

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com> wrote:

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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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