[SunHELP] what does {} \ mean?

[John Kennedy]

Andrew,
The {} tells the shell to execute the command (in this case ls -ldb) on the
result of the find. 
For example if the find command fount a file named foo owned by root with 4000
permission it would run ls -ldb /path/to/foo.
The backslash is there so that the user's shell doesn't interpret the
semi-colon.  I forget exactly why the find command needs the semi-colon
(something to do with having to put a semi-colon after each line in source code
for c and c++).
John

"Meng, Andrew" wrote:
> 
> hello,
> 
> Can anyone explain to me what { } \  means in find . -user root -perm -4000
> -exec ls -ldb {} \.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Andrew
> 
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