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Re: mc finds more than `find` finds?

From Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, alt.os.linux.debian, alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject Re: mc finds more than `find` finds?
Followup-To comp.os.linux.misc
Date 2015-11-29 12:41 +0200
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <87k2p1hyty.fsf@mithlond.arda> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <n3atst$8h6$1@dont-email.me> <n3cjvm$5v8$1@dont-email.me> <n3cq2q$t2i$1@dont-email.me> <87d1uum20p.fsf@mithlond.arda> <n3d3nn$49j$1@dont-email.me>

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William Unruh [2015-11-28 20:44:39Z] wrote:

> On 2015-11-28, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
>> William Unruh [2015-11-28 17:59:54Z] wrote:
>>> On 2015-11-28, Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@domain.invalid> wrote:
>>>> Which shell interprets `{}'? I have never seen one.
>>> Have you tried it?
>> I'll start:
>>
>>     $ /bin/bash -c 'echo {}'
>>     {}
>>     $ /bin/sh -c 'echo {}'
>>     {}
>
> Forget it. That was not what I suggested you try, but it is pointless
> to talk with you.

The point came from this:

    William Unruh [2015-11-28 00:52:45Z] wrote:
    > You need to escape {} (ie \{\}, or '{}' or the shell will
    > interpret it.

Yes. Shell interprets it but there's not much need for escaping {}
because the result is still {}. Or what is the need? Probably you just
forgot that plain {} doesn't need escaping, even though { and } have
special meaning sometimes. That's fine and not a problem here. I forget
shell's special characters sometimes.

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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
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                Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-11-30 09:24 +0000
                Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 10:08 +0000
              Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-11-29 20:07 +0000
              Re: mc finds more than `find` finds? Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 20:10 +0000
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