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Re: mc finds more than `find` finds?

From Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, alt.os.linux.debian, alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject Re: mc finds more than `find` finds?
Date 2015-11-30 09:24 +0000
Organization terraraq NNTP server
Message-ID <874mg3u9ec.fsf@mantic.terraraq.uk> (permalink)
References (5 earlier) <87y4dh7sol.fld@barrow.com> <martijn-A8CAB7.16351529112015@news.individual.net> <87lh9g7fhj.fld@barrow.com> <87a8pwtuz4.fsf@mantic.terraraq.uk> <87h9k4767v.fld@barrow.com>

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floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) writes:
> Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>>TLDR: no, you don’t need to quote ‘{}’.
>
>        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 similarly protected by the use
>        of a backslash, though single quotes could have
>        been used in that case also.
>
> From the man page for find.

What’s that supposed to prove?

-- 
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/

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mc finds more than `find` finds? WhoCares@gmail.com - 2015-11-28 00:37 +0000
  Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-11-28 00:52 +0000
    Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@domain.invalid> - 2015-11-28 16:15 +0000
      Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-11-28 17:59 +0000
        Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2015-11-28 20:07 +0200
          Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-11-28 20:44 +0000
            Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2015-11-29 12:41 +0200
        Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@domain.invalid> - 2015-11-28 18:14 +0000
          Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2015-11-28 11:52 -0900
            Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.demon.nl> - 2015-11-29 16:35 +0100
              Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2015-11-29 10:49 -0900
                Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-11-29 20:24 +0000
                Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2015-11-29 14:09 -0900
                Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-11-30 09:24 +0000
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