Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:10:04 -0600 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.debian,alt.os.linux.slackware Subject: Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? References: <87y4dh7sol.fld@barrow.com> <87lh9g7fhj.fld@barrow.com> <87a8pwtuz4.fsf@mantic.terraraq.uk> From: floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) Organization: __________ Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:09:56 -0900 Message-ID: <87h9k4767v.fld@barrow.com> User-Agent: gnus 5.10.6/XEmacs 21.4.15/Linux 2.6.19 Cancel-Lock: sha1:4dhjKJlLGQO16MPLsGTRYU0ZLhg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 19 X-Trace: sv3-SjoNAn383VprtKdWEqTvmYo8moDuvh4z8fhleTti4KRPr0c3O1PEAs7+xN8HT+SuPy1h/ztu42F48iB!Kpi7YAjkFRNGcOBN0rBx6spsnKkY62QXno0OrNQnC4lGyzlZqjNJSWBHLa8ang== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2079 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:16400 alt.os.linux.debian:7434 alt.os.linux.slackware:25860 Richard Kettlewell wrote: >TLDR: no, you donâEUR(Tm)t need to quote âEUR~{}âEUR(Tm). 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. -- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/ Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@apaflo.com