Yep, I did mean {}.
Not that I really try to remember this.
The example I gave was a cut and paste from another email that someone sent me for a command to run looking for some source code.
He obviously could not remember the syntax either. ;)
Jared Still wrote,on my timestamp of 10/06/2006 6:07 AM:
> > Fine, just don't use that ridiculous '-exec <cmd> ()\;' syntax. > > Death to -exec! > > Long live xargs! >
sure you meant the oh-so-easy-to-remember: -exec <cmd> {} \; ;-)
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