[SunHELP] what does {} \ mean?

[Kevin Reichhart]

when doing an exec in a find, after the -exec, you issue the command (ls),
flags for the command (-ldb), {} which indicates the path to the found file
and then an escaped semi-colon (\;).

-----Original Message-----
From: Meng, Andrew [mailto:Andrew.Meng at capitalone.com]
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 11:46 AM
To: 'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'
Subject: [SunHELP] what does {} \ mean?


hello,

Can anyone explain to me what { } \  means in find . -user root -perm -4000
-exec ls -ldb {} \.

Thanks!

Andrew
 
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